Charles Shannon Hendrix said:

>What I'm curious about is how they would make a hard drive comply with this
>kind of thing.  It would have to either look for some kind of signature, which
>could be fooled, or have to run software to handle this sort of thing.

>The whole idea of enforcing copyright on digital media is just insane anyway.

Apparently, IBM already has this in some of their IDE drives.

The entertainment industry sees only the web and downloading movies on demand
when they look at the internet. They see the future of computing to be 
entertainment appliances that allow input of credit card numbers.

Hollywood will give lots of money to democrats if they vote for it.

>I also wonder about systems like Sun workstations.  I don't see how they could
>possibly comply with SSSCA.  In fact, I don't really see how it could possibly
>be enforced without enforcing it on all computers, even mainframes and
>servers.

Don't confuse them. All they know is Wintel and Apple.

>Otherwise, who is going to draw the line at exactly what is a Personal
>Computer and it's peripherals, and what is a workstation, server, mini, or
>mainframe?

All my systems are servers. :-)

>I love it when an industry we largely don't need anymore goes to Congress for
>survival.

Billy "want a cigar?" Clinton humped the leg of hollywood for 8 years. They
have a hard time dealing with change.

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Rick Kelly  rmk@rmkhome.com  www.rmkhome.com