Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: iMesh - Is this pirating?

Mason opened this issue on Jun 24, 2002 ยท 36 posts


Entropic posted Tue, 25 June 2002 at 8:23 AM

Well, the pandora's box got opened when the DMCA guaranteed digital content owners the rights to protect their products by any means at their disposal. It's only just now beginning to look like the courts are going to get forced into some awkward fights between privacy rights, property rights, access rights, and freedom of speech. The fact that Congress, in their ignorance, and due to pressure from industry, gave such sweeping rights to content owners, is reflective of the fact that copyright law, as a whole, needs a major overhaul. Unfortunately, very few legislators will consider the Herculean task of revising the volumes of legislation that are currently in place. Paul