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Re: DRM Helmets For Everyone
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (R. A. Hettinga)
Mon Jun 17 18:28:53 2002
Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2002 23:21:34 -0400
To: cryptography@wasabisystems.com
From: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>
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Status: U
Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2002 21:19:31 +0200 (CEST)
From: Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org>
To: Bill Humphries <bill@whump.com>
Cc: Gordon Mohr <gojomo@usa.net>, <fork@xent.com>
Subject: Re: DRM Helmets For Everyone
Sender: fork-admin@xent.com
On Sat, 8 Jun 2002, Bill Humphries wrote:
> If you haven't, you really need to read Karl Schroder's new novel
> _Permamence_ which incorporates this idea.
"... lowering the threshold for the cranial explosive trigger in your
GuardHelmet(TM) for copyright violation will result in big saving on LEOs
while simultaneously addressing the overpopulation problem in unit 589.
I think you'll be thrilled to learn that the next scheduled firmware
reflash (broadcast at +5 ksec) enhancing EEG DSP and disruptive TMS will
also effectively squash on the residual thoughtcrime issue recently
brought to our attention..." -- a Ministry of Truth Announcement scrolling
over your headup display
http://xent.com/mailman/listinfo/fork
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experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
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