Docster will figure out who else among those connected has a copy of that article and, if it's found, requests and saves a copy for our friendly researcher. Of course, we cannot do this. Libraries depend too much on copyright to attack the system so directly. You'll find it on Ricci Green in the Principles section under Realities . Well Samuel Slater's Clue warns us about the limits of patent and copyright protection.
Life online is about to get a lot more dangerous in the name of the law.
We've declared common actions illegal, we're beginning to use very intrusive means to enforce those edicts, and users are being told in no uncertain terms that they have neither freedom nor privacy online. This broad definition outlaws not just software that allows digital piracy, but any software providing access to a copyrighted work in a manner not intended by the copyright holder. In a recent case, a Norwegian teenager posted code to make DVDs work on the Linux operating system. He wasn't stealing anything, just making legally purchased DVD's work on something other than Windows. The Motion Picture Assn of America sued and the U.S. gov't got the Norwegian gov't to arrest the kid.