First of all.. i never had problems with an industry which wanted to drag its feet. It was their loss.

However, I am a tinkerer. I modify at least half the hardware i buy, no matter what it is. I like to be able to add capability and interoperability.

My problem first came with the DMCA, and the now tremendous and looming threat it poses to my right to do what i want with my property, both in the form of hardware, and creative works in my posession.

By granting legal protections to technologies which prevent the now infinite number of fair uses the computer provides, they have siezed regulatory control over and stunted technology which they do not understand.

Our technology has finally advanced to a point where any use we can imagine can be programmed into an omnipurpose machine, and they come along and bind it with chains and steel plates.

Thanks to the latest hobbling perpetrated by the MPAA, i wont be able to use my computer as a central entertainment system because it will either be locked out of tv, or be so saddled with DRM that there is no point.

Add to this the lawsuits, and it is no longer a case of an industry dragging its feet. It is now a case of bitter kermudgeons lashing out against the public and the advance of technology.

the imposition of DRM regimes combined with regulations preventing the market from correcting for abuses is a direct threat to personal property rights, which are the foundation of capitalist society.

Rhetoric? I’m afraid not sir. It is a firmly grounded point of view.

Have you absorbed any of what Mr. Griffin has to say? If you would take a moment to set aside your wrong headed, rebel rousing rhetoric and become a champion of thinking like Jim’s you might actually be of value in strengthening creators rights and getting us to our inevitable digital future more quickly. I’ve never understood why you think it is of value to trash the people that make the music that P2P needs to exist. You do it day in and day out. To what purpose? Let Jim’s message sink in then go and do good things – for a change.