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Re:Senators want to mandate anti-piracy technology across th... by yeetsfromhellL2 on Thursday April 21, 2022 @11:06AM (#31110401)
Once again, politicians are trying to fix something that isn't broken and are going to make a bigger mess than whatever it is they're trying to change.

This whole thing reminds me of Alice in Wonderland.

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Re:Senators want to mandate anti-piracy technology across th... by hi_im_miles on Thursday April 21, 2022 @11:44AM (#31110968)
The "broken" thing is (and always has been) the existence of low cost, low barrier-to-entry competitors to monopoly power.
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Re:Senators want to mandate anti-piracy technology across th... by mattgreenrocks on Thursday April 21, 2022 @12:49PM (#31111886)
Yes. Makes me wonder who is putting money into the pockets of the legislators, because they have everything to gain by building deeper moats.
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Re:Senators want to mandate anti-piracy technology across th... by mirceal on Thursday April 21, 2022 @11:11AM (#31110482)
trying to fix something that ain’t broken and more importantly they have 0 clue how it works.
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Re:Senators want to mandate anti-piracy technology across th... by marssaxman on Thursday April 21, 2022 @12:50PM (#31111903)
From their perspective, it's broken if they don't control it and/or major corporations can't extract rent from it.

Systems which work fine for the rest of us without their interference are broken as far as they see it.

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Re:Senators want to mandate anti-piracy technology across th... by mirceal on Thursday April 21, 2022 @12:58PM (#31112014)
i think they don’t have the tools and understanding to figure our what works and what does not work in tech. clueless. that’s the word i’m looking for
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