uncopyable

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Certainly much less time than it will take Microsoft and the recording industry to realize they're playing a losing game, and that trying to make digital files uncopyable is like trying to make water not wet.

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  • The idea was that you'd (or a kiosk would) be able to download and burn to a disk an official, authorized, copy of a movie, that would be just as uncopyable as a regular AACS-controlled disk. —  doggdot.us
  • The content of text-widget in WP 2.5 & 2.6 is uncopyable. —  Komunitas Blogger Muslim
  • "Trying to make digital files uncopyable is like trying to make water not wet."
  • In normal life, most people I meet are not aware of the almost constant attacks on freedom and technology on the part of the entertainment industry in its fight to "make bits uncopyable" aka, "stop water from being wet". —  Techdirt
  • Already some news sites use some awful hacky javascript and layers to present uncopyable text, and it wont be long before they have embedded pdf-like viewers with completely custom renderers and unaccessible content - like flash but worse. —  Mozilla Labs
 

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