----- Original Message ----- From: "Ryan Lackey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I consider DRM systems (even the not-secure, not-mandated versions) > evil due to the high likelyhood they will be used as technical > building blocks upon which to deploy mandated, draconian DRM systems. The same argument can be applied to just about any tool. A knife has a high likelihood of being used in such a manner that it causes physical damage to an individual (e.g. you cut yourself while slicing your dinner) at some point in its useful lifetime. Do we declare knives evil? A hammer has a high likelihood of at some point in its useful life causing physical damage to both an individual and property. Do we declare hammers evil? DRM is a tool. Tools can be used for good, and tools can be used for evil, but that does not make a tool inherently good or evil. DRM has a place where it is a suitable tool, but one should not declare a tool evil simply because an individual or group uses the tool for purposes that have been declared evil. Joe