Source.If you want to see what's at stake in the battle over overbroad intellectual property law, visit the Electronic Frontier Foundation's list of Endangered Gizmos at eff.org/endangered. There you'll read about gadgets that managed to escape death at the hands of legislatures and courts (such as the VCR VCR: see videocassette recorder. VCR in full videocassette recorder Electromechanical device that records, stores on a videotape cassette, and plays back on a TV set recorded images and sound. ), technologies whose fate is still uncertain (such as Morpheus and other file sharing Copying files from one computer to another. See peer-to-peer network, file sharing protocol and file and printer sharing. programs), and devices that have gone the way of the dodo (such as a DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. archiving program). |
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