Apparently it may be illegal for record companies to employ CD copyright protection schemes because they are already getting paid for "piracy" when blank media is sold. Tangent: What if the government proposed an internet piracy tax in exchange for the end of all anti-piracy systems.... Much of "free software" is currently federally subsidised. One can imagine a future in which something like the NEA becomes the way that media is paid for...

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