Yeah, many people don't understand that the lack of respect fo copyright comes from the extreme attempt to extend it to every corner of our lives. It's like the prohibitionists trying to stop everyone from drinking at all and only provoking people to find new ways to drink. Ever hear of the 'Grape Brick'? It was a very popular product in the 1920s. It was just a bunch or raisins compressed into a solid brick and it had a 'warning' on it that went something like:
Warning: Do not place this grape brick in a large pot with 2 quarts of water and a cup of sugar and a packet of yeast and let stand for a week or a illegal alchoholic beverage may result! Deh!
All Prohibiton did was erode respect for the law by making the law unreasonable. Same thing with this paranoid attempt to control everything we do with our computers. When they give up on trying to make us pay royalties every farking minute of our lives and find a rational position again they'll get most people to respect copyright again.
[ July 12, 2002, 02:46: Message edited by: Baron Munchausen ]