[free-sklyarov] "Brave New Battleground" Over Digital Copyright: US News & World Report

[Jeanne A. E. DeVoto]

At 2:46 PM -0700 9/6/2001, Jeme A Brelin wrote:
>On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, DeBug wrote:
>> The next step industry will try to do is to provide its products
>> strait to our brains. To implement this it will require us to have an
>> implant chip (universal port for your needs satisfaction).
>
>No freaking way will it be a universal port.  It'll be proprietary.
>
>And I'll say, "Oh, hey... did you read the new book by Tom Clancy's Brain
>In A Box?"
>
>And you'll say, "No, that's a NewsCorp book... I have a Viacom port.
>My brain's not compatible with that information."

If they go that far, it'll be a crime to talk to someone whose port comes
from a different company in the first place. Nonauthorized sharing of
information, against contract and public policy.

(About a quarter smiley.)

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jeanne a. e. devoto ~ jaed at jaedworks.com
http://www.jaedworks.com