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Sorry, but steve-b is right, overreaching IP protection is just as anti-constitutional as overreaching gun regulation and overreaching speech controls. In fact, if I figured out how to defeat a Fritz chip, the DMCA makes me a criminal for speaking what is in my head. That, to me makes the DMCA an evil law and anyone who supports it just as evil as people who support campaign finance "reform" and "hate speech" laws.

You may have to wait in line behind the Drug Warriors for a clue as to why you ain't a constitutionalist conservative.

Why are you guys such dicks? for your info I'm anti-WOD and give just about anybody on this board a run for their money on the meaning of the Constitution as referenced with the Federalist and Anti-Federalist papers.

What I'm looking for here is an answer. On the one side we have the RIAA admittedly over reaching. But the only "alternative" anybody is willing to propose is some BS variation on the ever popular hacker contention that "information wants to be free" (reread the post I originally replied to, his answer to not having your IP copied was to not store it in a way computers can copy it... clearly a stupid answer).

What can we do to maintain the currently existing definition of fair use (which is a lot broader than most countries, which is good this is America we should be better than everybody else) and stop the massive MP3 bootlegging that's going on (and it's pretty serious, people at my new company don't understand why I buy CDs they just hunt down DL and share MP3s... note i just don't like MP3s as a format I like CDs, I did some ripping for personal use and never used them thus ended my MP3 life)? I don't like the RIAA's current asnwer, but I know you just can't tell a whole industry to suck it up. People are breaking the law, they are breaking good laws, how can they be stopped?