On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 01:09:06PM -0800, Michael ODonald wrote: > Linus Torvalds wrote: > > DMCA is bad because it puts technical limits over > > the rights expressly granted by copyright law. > > The best ways to get rich corporations on our side in fighting the > DMCA is to use the DMCA to hurt their profits. Companies that rely on > binary drivers would have several options: > > 1) Lobby politicians to repeal the DMCA, thereby allowing the > companies to *internally* circumvent Linuxs GPL-only > pseudo-restriction all they want by simply changing the source code. > > 2) Release the binary drivers as open source or use their economic > clout to pressure the makers of the binary drivers. > > 3) Use FOSS-friendly hardware. > > Im sorry, but theres currently no economic push for repealing the > DMCA; the only people trying to abolish it are idealists who are > easily out-bought by the media cartel. This is our only chance to put > some corporate money muscle behind the otherwise doomed anti-DMCA > movement.
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