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I think this article does a fantastic job of illustrating why legal problems (determining or enforcing the Colour of something) can never possibly be solved through the use of (colourless) technology - the two are fundamentally incompatible. This is, for example, the reason why DRM has never ever stopped people from sharing copyrighted works - because DRM is trying to solve a legal problem (the Colour of bits) by using a function of those bits (technology), it is destined to fail.