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Schneier on Security

Thank You, Thank You, Bruce Schneier.
For about three years I've wanted to write this article, under this very same title.

Read this and show it to all your non-technical friends. This is stuff people need to understand.

Who Owns Your Computer?

"When technology serves its owners, it is liberating. When it is designed to serve others, over the owner's objection, it is oppressive. There's a battle raging on your computer right now -- one that pits you against worms and viruses, Trojans, spyware, automatic update features and digital rights management technologies. It's the battle to determine who owns your computer."

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	indrax			5/04/2006	0

Bad reporting on copyright.

The Register incorrectly assumes that Microsoft is illegally distributing a Midi of 'Happy Birthday'. The truth is that the Hill sisters only wrote the words to Happy Birthday, they did not write the tune. The tune is much older, Mozart-old at least, and there have been many variations from different composers.
This is really a sad story when you think about it: The Hill sisters rip off the public domain and contribute their own 'lyrics' using the words "Happy", "Birthday", "to", "you", and "dear". Is this the kind of creativity copyright encourages? They and the later copyright holders milk obscene royalties due to the song's popularity. Then Microsoft also rips off the public domain, while railing against 'theft' of IP.

Who loses from copyright? The consumer.

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	indrax			5/03/2006	0

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