Re: [NTLK] [OT]Ration your felt tip pens, their going to be illegal!

From: Ed Kummel (tech_ed_at_yahoo.com)
Date: Tue May 21 2002 - 23:12:51 EDT


There goes my world...Sharpie pens and Gummi
Bears...two of my favorite things!
What's the world coming to?
Ed (wondering how to get someone to give me a Gummi
Bear with their finger print on it)
web/gadget guru

--- Franck Achim <francka_at_mac.com> wrote:
>
<snip>
> contains the copy protection technology with a felt
> tip pen, thus=20
> keeping it from causing a computer to crash upon
> reading it.
>
> The funniest part of this whole ordeal is that under
> the rules of the=20
> Digital Millennium Copyright Act, technically felt
> tip pens should now=20=
>
> be made illegal as they contribute to the break down
> of this copyright=20=
>
> protection technology.
>
> In a blatant attempt to show some of the absurdity
> of the Digital=20
> Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) many members of the
> on-line community=20
> are now actually pushing to make felt tip pen's
> illegal to prove their=20=
>
> point.
>
> In some what related news, it seems some folks have
> also figured out how=20=
>
> to defeat most standardized finger print detection
> systems by creating a=20=
>
> finger out of Gummi Bears. Does this now mean that
> we will be forced to=20=
>
> outlaw our favorite sticky snack also?

=====
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- Jay Bush (Bush's Baked Beans)

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