It would make me laugh my A$$ off if Blockbuster went out of business and NetFlix and Redbox then refused to release movies from Warner Bros., Universal and Fox until the 28 day period hits. Would serve them right.
I recall reading an article a couple years back about how thieves have figured out how to defeat most of the chipped keys. It would explain why car theft insurance on a new model car isn't $1/year since it would be impossible to steal or use..
Take for example the recent findings the hairless mole rats are incapable of getting cancer due to a specific gene or sequence of genes. Now lets say MegaBuckethead insurance company has a research staff that discovers this sequence in some humans and patents it just to hide it from use. They then sell/license this information to the highest bidder in the insurance game and that insurance company cleans house of all people without this sequence.
Or take for example the CCR5 gene, delta 32, which is believed to be the reason some survived the Bubonic Plague and has also been indicated in HIV immunity(dunno if that's still holding true). Imagine if after the discovery of the plague resistance this information was patented and banned from research for other scientists?
Information about genetics belongs to the public, and should be shared for the greater good. Period.
Is there a license agreement? Could it restrict this?
The internet archive idea is a good one. Another approach to something like this could be a good use of Peer to Peer technology. If a set of documents is scattered across several systems (with parity so that partial sets could be reconstructed like in a RAID drive array) then it could eliminate the single point of failure here for the archived copies.
the sad part is that will continue to be until countless kids are killed in one of these massacres where nobody can make a call. Schools have become a heaven for those with Napoleonic dreams of control and dictatorship.