Comments on: Potential, Interrupted http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2008/12/02/potential-interrupted or, The Hitchhiker's Guide to Fear and Loathing at a Public Library Reference Desk Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:34:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Brian Herzog http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2008/12/02/potential-interrupted#comment-50908 Brian Herzog Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:10:52 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=492#comment-50908 @Jeff: I did know this was a scene from the movie, but I was using this more as an example of a toy, rather than a movie tie-in. But I really like your sentence "DRM punishes people before they do the crime" - that pretty much sums up my point of view exactly. @Jeff: I did know this was a scene from the movie, but I was using this more as an example of a toy, rather than a movie tie-in. But I really like your sentence “DRM punishes people before they do the crime” - that pretty much sums up my point of view exactly.

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]]> By: Jeff http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2008/12/02/potential-interrupted#comment-50902 Jeff Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:30:33 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=492#comment-50902 Have you watched the movie? He trashes a small town when he races through it. He gets the boot afterward. It only comes off when he is tied to the road making machine for his community service. It's a punishment for his crime. DRM punishes people before they do the crime. Lightning McQueen is punished after the crime. (Maybe you have to buy the tow truck, he is the only one who can take the boot off in the movie.) Have you watched the movie? He trashes a small town when he races through it. He gets the boot afterward. It only comes off when he is tied to the road making machine for his community service. It’s a punishment for his crime.

DRM punishes people before they do the crime. Lightning McQueen is punished after the crime. (Maybe you have to buy the tow truck, he is the only one who can take the boot off in the movie.)

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