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  1. March 6th, 2002, 01:44 AM #11
    rcgreen
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    Imagine this:
    Some mystic invents a new meditation technique.
    You can go to a movie, watch it and remember it.
    Later, you go into a trance, and enjoy the whole
    thing again.
    Is this piracy? Does it violate that statement
    at the beginning of the film prohibiting the storage
    of the content on "any recording device" ie your brain?

    If you had perfect memory, would it be illegal for
    you to know or remember any "proprietary content"?
    Hollywood people need to get real jobs---
    ---in a horse stable.
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  2. March 6th, 2002, 05:08 AM #12
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    Storage technology has caught up with mass media and that's the reality of the free market. Adapt, adopt and survive, Hollywood. I guess actors and musicians will have to make their fortunes the old fashioned way: On the stage and in concert.
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  3. March 6th, 2002, 05:17 AM #13
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    YOu know somthing? This would seriously harm the already weak US economic. Who gives a **** about hollywood except for movies? Now they're stepping into the technologies industries? NO, I can't believe this crap.

    Um........ Someone should start a business in Taiwan, making CPUs that does not have this copyright protection.
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  4. March 6th, 2002, 05:33 AM #14
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    Imagine this:
    Some mystic invents a new meditation technique.
    You can go to a movie, watch it and remember it.
    Later, you go into a trance, and enjoy the whole
    thing again.
    Is this piracy? Does it violate that statement
    at the beginning of the film prohibiting the storage
    of the content on "any recording device" ie your brain?

    If you had perfect memory, would it be illegal for
    you to know or remember any "proprietary content"?
    Interesting point. This isn't completely unrealistic. When Mozart was 5 he remembered an entire piece of music after listening to it just once. This particular piece had been "copyrighted" by the church. No one was allowed to see the actual sheet music for the piece. Mozart wrote the whole thing down from memory and the church's secret was out.

    What if the same sort of thing we're to happen today? Will companies soon start confiscating peoples brains?
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