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From the EFF press release:
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) sued the U.S. government today on behalf of technology creators and researchers to overturn onerous provisions of copyright law that violate the First Amendment.
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Ostensibly enacted to fight music and movie piracy, Section 1201 has long served to restrict people's ability to access, use, and even speak out about copyrighted materials—including the software that is increasingly embedded in everyday things. The law imposes a legal cloud over our rights to tinker with or repair the devices we own, to convert videos so that they can play on multiple platforms, remix a video, or conduct independent security research that would reveal dangerous security flaws in our computers, cars, and medical devices. It criminalizes the creation of tools to let people access and use those materials.Copyright law is supposed to exist in harmony with the First Amendment. But the prospect of costly legal battles or criminal prosecution stymies creators, academics, inventors, and researchers. In the complaint filed today in U.S. District Court in Washington D.C., EFF argues that this violates their First Amendment right to freedom of expression.
Section 1201 of the US Copyright act restricts the Circumvention of Technological Measures: more commonly known as Digital Restrictions Management.
I have always hated how DRM allows copyright holders to restrict what I do with my personal property: while being backed by the force of law.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 22 2016, @05:37PM
Replicator tech was based on transporter technology, and transporter tech originally could only transport inanimate objects successfully.
By the time of TNG however it could be used to 'accidentally clone' individuals given the proper atmospheric feedback, as discovered by Thomas Riker (William T. Riker's clone) who got trapped on a planet they left for... 10+ years as a result of it?
He finally got killed off either in DS9/Voyager or in Star Trek Online sadly.
As to the Doctor from voyager being un-replicatable. I believe it was stated that was due to the use of the neural fiber packs that made voyager special compared to the previous isolinear computing systems, and the fact that his 'safeties' has been turned off, allowing him to grow beyond his original programming in a way no other holographic simulation had the opportunity to.
(Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Saturday July 23 2016, @03:36AM
Yes, the Thomas Riker episode was the very one I was thinking of. There is also an Original Series episode in which a transporter malfunction creates two Captain Kirks, but with their minds split so that one is super nice but unable to be decisive, and the other is decisive but has no self-control or manners.