Anti-Copy Bill Slams Coders

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:-( It seems to me that if a programer is not permitted to share software without embedding goverment mandated code, it would constitute a violation of the people's right to free speech, as protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
 
:evil: Hopefully this bill will be shot down in flames.

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Anyone read up on Prohibition recently?

;-) That's when America had its first drive-by shootings; dealers fighting over territory.  Today, speak-easies are a thing of the past, and most of our young people haven't even heard of them.

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@Weasel:

...i know that I would never buy all the cd/movies/software that i have downloaded.  i have some stuff i tried once and never touched since (photoshop, ms office amongst others)...

:-? It occurs to me that all too many people have done just as you have, and that this sort of casual reproduction of others' intellectual property, just because the hardware allows you to, is why congress is trying to legislate physics so that newer hardware won't let you do it anymore.  They can't succeed, of course, but they'll keep trying.  And we'll lose more and more freedoms along the way.

:evil: It could be argued that casual pirates have no one to blame for this bill but themselves.  The rest of us, on the other hand, can blame it all on you.