On Wed, 12 May 2004 08:56:25 PDT, "Schmidt, Michael R." said: > What we need is something that you have to log into (securely) or your DHCP is > revoked immediately. And of course static IPs are well, static and since they > are routed, routes can be logged and therefore trackable. All fine and good.. However... there's this whole "enforcement" thing. For starters, the net is multinational - how do you *force* some user in Zimbabwe to use your scheme? I'll leave all the privacy issues to others - there's plenty of problems *there* as well. > If you replace a part on some new cars with a non-manufacturers part, you > void the warranty. But when you run unsigned downloaded for free or sent > through email code on your dell, who do you call and expect to fix it when it > stops working? The end user is the moron, we require no test to get on the > internet and yet we let more people anonymously sign on the net everyday. You have to make a decision here - I may be willing to use an aftermarket part and void my warranty, having made a decision that doing so was a good idea - the aftermarket part may be vastly less expensive (I've replaced several pieces of my car with junkyard salvage for $20 when the 3rd party part was $100 and the original company's part was $160), or higher performance, and you decide that it's worth voiding the warranty. It's a totally different thing to legislate that replacing a part with a non-vendor part is illegal - and that's what you'd have to do to make this scheme fly. When source code is outlawed, only outlaws will have source.... :)
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