Forgot your password?   Comment: Re:Death of the small guy
(Score 5, Insightful) 194  by steelfood (#45610233) Attached to:
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course, the genie can be put back in the bottle -- locked down
devices can prevent code that hasn't been vetted to run, and on
desktops, mandatory DRM stacks would ensure the laws are
enforced regardless of borders.  No, sorry, it can't. There's
currently enough technological excellence in other parts of the
world that they can design and build unlocked general purpose
computers for fairly cheap without U.S. involvement.  The only
reason why people pay attention to U.S. laws is because of the
strength of U.S. consumers. The U.S. spends and spends. It's a
special market unto itself because of how much spending people
do, and as a consequence, how competitive the landscape is for
those consumer dollars. The money doesn't come from nowhere
though. The U.S. has enormous amounts of natural resources to
exploit, including a very lo