Originally posted by: Priit
This FAQ should answer to your questions.
First step, do not read that FAQ. It is obviously a biased load of BS. The key thing to remember is that WE DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS GOING TO BE LIKE. That "FAQ" is a load of FUD. If you just read through it, it makes the TCPA and Palladium sound like evil Nazi inventions. But if you look more closely, you will see that it mostly uses words like "could" and "can". This does not mean "will". The page is carefully crafted to make you think that the TCPA et al is evil and will take away your rights. An example might prove my point.
Software companies can also make it harder for you to switch to their competitors' products; for example, Word could encrypt all your documents using keys that only Microsoft products have access to; this would mean that you could only read them using Microsoft products, not with any competing word processor.
You read this and you freak out. It sounds bad, and you are suddenly and irrationally caught up in hating the TCPA and MS in particular. But re-read it. Word
could encrypt your documents so that only MS products could read them. Fair enough, but Word
could do that now, and any future product from any company
could do that as well. In fact, MS
could release a patch that forces you to send them money for a new key or Windows stops working.
But the fact is, they haven't. And no one has done anything to indicate that the TCPA will be bad and negative and take away your "rights" to pirate music and movies. There's plenty of things that are actually true to get worked up about, no sense worrying about what "could" happen.
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