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It comes down to prior restraint.

With most laws, there is the possibility of breaking them and maybe you have to face the consequences.

With this stuff, you won't be able to use the stuff for what it wasn't designed for. Stronger guarantees. It's like a car that slows down in a construction zone, and is unable to go any faster, instead of cops giving tickets. Like the 90 year old engineer guy behind the Venus project says in his interviews.

That can be useful. Not for everything, but for a whole lot. The current DRM stuff works like this.



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