Re: [pen] guh

["Rev. George" <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Gavin Hanover remarked:
> : If this bill passes, the following code is illegal
> :
> : 10 INPUT $A
> : 20 PRINT $A
> :
> : or if you're in a Perl mood:
> :
> : perl -ne 'print $_;'
> 
> how do you figure?
> "Anyone selling -- or creating and distributing -- "digital media devices"
> may not do so unless they include government-approved security standards."
> how is $a or $_ a digital media device?
> 
> netmunky

$a and $_ aren't digital media devices, the program is a digital media
device (making the entire computer a digital media device).

Let's say that I have hypotheticly compressed the new Britney Spears
album down to this data: 0xDEADBEEF

So if I walk up to my program and type in 0xDEADBEEF, then the program
will COPY the DIGITAL MEDIA and print it out.  In practice it would be a
lot of typing, but I didn't notice a character limit in the law...
Hell, there are radio stations broadcasting the linux kernel and DeCSS
code.  Digital media is a vaporous concept, and a digital media device
is even more so.

George
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