Re: Digital Rights Management - An idea (limited lease, renting, expiration, verification) NON HARWARE BASED.

Tomas Szepe (szepe@pinerecords.com)
Wed, 14 May 2003 17:12:46 +0200

> [dean_mcewan@linuxmail.org]
>
> E.G. a kernel could refuse to work after one year forcing its users to
> upgrade their kernel, preventing exploits being left in place, and
> creators of the prefab kernels in a sticky liable mess.

Well, I reckon people who have an irresistible temptation to fish
out their C64 to play Bubble Bobble[1] every time somebody comes
to visit would have a pretty distinct opinion on this "feature."

-- 
Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com>


[1] http://www.bubandbob.com/
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