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RE: DeCSS, crypto, law, and economics
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James A. Donald)
Tue Jan 7 21:26:11 2003
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2003 18:14:44 -0800
From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
In-reply-to: <CKEJIHDOBFKPAALJLELDMEIHDGAA.I.Brown@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
To: cryptography <cryptography@wasabisystems.com>
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On 8 Jan 2003 at 0:30, Ian Brown wrote:
> the public tends to be skeptical when an industry claims that
> expert opinion shows that what is good for the company will
> also be good for the nation, and that state aid in enforcing
> its desires will produce an economically efficient result
Situations often arise where government enforcement in
supporting the anti competitive desires of the company would
produce a more efficient result.
But when this happens, invariably the result is that the
company, being a concentrated interest, soon arranges to
receive a good deal more government enforcement of its desires
than is economically efficient.
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