QQ wrote:
> 
> Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in news:3b9b25f7@news.povray.org:
> 
> > This starts to sound a bit like those countries where the use of
> > software such as SSH as prohibited because it uses high-level encrypting
> > (which the government is unable to crack).
> 
> Agreed.  The lengths that the Americans are prepared to go to protect
> absolute copyright are bringing them perilously close to a police state.
> 
> American legislators must be looking enviously at such admirable countries
> as China, Belarus, Pakistan and Singapore as their legislation is certainly
> bringing the United States much closer to autocracy than democracy.

To be fair, it's not "the people" who are asking for draconian copyright
protection, it's the companies. Being an American, I'm rather disgusted
at the direction the country is going.

-Xplo

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