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Old 06-28-2004, 03:55 PM   #10
SteveDallas
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Originally posted by Slartibartfast
If they ban all these 'potential' copyright infringement hardware and software products, they are also going to have to ban the photocopy machine because the same stupid 'logic' applies.
Yeah but the difference (so the argument goes) is that a digital copy of a digital original is a perfect copy. When you photocopy something it's a less than perfect copy, and besides, if you're talking about a book, photocopies of all the pages are not as useful/valuable unless you have them bound.... etc. etc. etc.

Of course as H_P points out they'd do it if they could get away with it!
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