I do not really care about Mr. Valenti's pockets. As a customer, I already refusing to buy devices and media that uses _this_ kind of protection, and not so politely declining any offers from the companies supporting DMCA every time I can. I am not a big spender, but I assume that from 2001 several companies lost may be a couple of thousands bucks of my business, and probably about $10K of my clients' business,too. Not a lot...

BTW, I did not by a Ford car just because their suit against 2600 magazine. And my wife did not get Nissan car - see http://www.nissan.com/ for more details. How much the supid lose because of greed?

From the sysadmin point of view: every protection these DMCA advocates will use can and will be broken by the bad guys. Every "protective" packet entering and leaving our networks - a grave threat to everybody's privacy and security, not to mention the bandwidth _we_ are paying for.

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