[free-sklyarov] AAP at it again - "DMCA essential to the future of E-Commerce"

[Xcott Craver]

On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, Ilya V. Vasilyev wrote:

>  (!) AAP business model is not firm.  It requires "strong enforcement
> police" in every country, more tax money.  If some country failed with
> police support or police has to spend money against murders, etc., their
> system will crush.  Seems not good business model.

	Yes, and they will always require that strong enforcement, because
	the business model is amazingly unstable and ill-conceived.
	The only way to keep it from collapsing is by forcing people
	to participate in it by federal law, *and* enforcing that law
	by putting computer chips in every household.  Crazy, no?

	Geez, imagine if the architects of the dot.com "new economy"
	tried this approach.  They just allowed their badly designed
	business models to fail; instead, they could have passed laws
	forcing all Americans to visit their web sites, click on their
	banner ads, and buy the advertisers' products, or face jail time.
	It could be a federal crime to point out that a business plan
	makes no sense.

	It's a bit of a cliche to compare such folly to The Emperor's
	New Clothes, but here it's so amazingly fitting!  These folks
	are passing laws requiring the whole world to pretend that
	fluffy, intangible information is actually concrete, physical
	property that can actually be metered and rendered uncopiable.
	SSSCA mandates the inclusion of security technologies nobody
	invented yet, and which nobody ever will.

							Xcott