I agree 100% Kat! Here in the good old US of Amerika we have far
too many lawyers, politicians (they all seem to be lawyers with a
side degree in weasel-ness) and marketing types who think these
sorts of laws are a good thing. They also think the U.S. is too
mighty to be knocked off our collective perch.

Personally, I despise that attitude and frankly, I've become
disgusted with the business environment here. I was raised to
believe in personal freedom, respecting other's rights and treating
others like you'd want to be treated. In other words doing the right
thing. Sadly, it seems that our society has degraded into what's
technically legal and what you can "get away with". And of course,
the monied interests just throw money at the legislators and make
laws to their liking when the current ones aren't.

The attitude of "big America" (i.e. the big corporations and law make=
rs)
has gotten incredibly arrogant here and I'm dissapointed in the attit=
ude
it portrays to good citizens all over the world. I think it's so far
removed from the attitudes of the "average U.S. citizen" that I can
understand why many people around the world view them as arrogant als=
o.
It's really not the case, we are mostly good people! ;-)

Matt Pobursky
Maximum Performance Systems

On Fri, 9 May 2003 17:56:38 +0800, Katinka Mills wrote:
>=A0
>=A0I like this, as the USA is not the world, the rest of us just pul=
l
>=A0finger
>=A0signs at these stupid laws and continue our business. so what if =
HP
>=A0stop
>=A0shipping to the rest of the world, we just support a new manufact=
urer
>=A0who
>=A0will deal with us, that little known printer manufacturer in Chin=
a
>=A0becomes
>=A0#1 overnight and we all have Gold Star printers or whatever.
>=A0
>=A0This DMCA crap, is only going to hurt the USA, as it stands (from=
 my
>=A0interpretation and please correct me if I am wrong) Microchip, At=
mel,
>=A0Intel
>=A0etc etc all have to fit the Anti Digital copying stuff into every
>=A0micro,
>=A0into every maskrom digital device ....... How long before all the=
 Chip
>=A0manufacturers pull out of the USA ? America is not that bigger ma=
rket
>=A0to
>=A0loose when you get to keep Asia and Europe (also us down in Ocean=
a)
>=A0
>=A0Just my $0.02 (inc GST)
>=A0
>=A0Regards,
>=A0
>=A0Kat.

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