[LINK] Copyright law caught in its own time warp

[Jan Whitaker]

At 08:29 PM 18/07/2006, Antony Barry wrote:
>But we will continue to see it happening, so long as people refuse to
>see the obvious: that copyright is dead in the digital millennium.

I wonder if we traded the privacy rights for copyright removal, the 
software vendors would be happy? Scott McNealy at Sun Microsystems may not 
like it so much if his software was threatened in the exchange, though.

That led me to another interesting concept article: if privacy is dead, is 
identity also dead, get over it?  See 
http://security.itworld.com/5009/nls_ebiz_identity060606/page_1.html

Jan

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