On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 06:40:49AM -0400, David A. Desrosiers wrote: > Absolutely not, you miss the point. Preventing copy is ensuring > proper use and protecting copyright of the document creator/holder.
That's creating an artificial scarcity for an unlimited resource (digital data). It goes against the very rules of capitalism from Adam Smith times. > That being said, if I have company-specific documents on my PDA, or > project documents, or something that I don't want to beam to other people, I > will crypt it with an owner_id, so that it cannot be easily used on any That's just protecting privacy. Fine with me. You are not distributing that doc to other people and removing their freedom to share it. > If what you say about copying and DRM were true, no Free Software > systems would be firewalled, because why would you want to block anything, > it's about sharing and copying, right? Why restrict anyone from just being GPG, passwords or firewalls are protecting privacy. Unless you buy Microsoft marketting about palladium, DRM is about restricting the user ability to do what he wants with data he purchased. In no way it will improve privacy. I purchase a DVD - I want to play it on my GNU\Linux computer regardless of zone, legally available software or license scheme. I pay for it - I want to use it the way I want. With a DRM plucker, you would be sold document only readable on your own device. You buy a new handheld? Pay again. You backup and restore? It may or it may not work. The company closes? You are left with no option. You don't have to look very far to see that: it is currently available under "mobipocket" brand name. That's just recreating with data the problem of non free software. That's why free software licenses for content, such as the GFDL, exist. The Free Software Movement was launched to create freedom and to protect it. The freedom to do want you want with your own stuff, with an emphasis on sharing freedom with other people through the "viral" aspect of the GPL. Protecting your own private documents (say, a list of password) is fine. Creating tools which will be used to prevent people from using their purchases (ebooks anyone?) in the way they want is wrong. DRM is about restricting freedom the same way non free software do. It should not exist in free software. -- Guylhem P. Aznar Now *@externe.net ([EMAIL PROTECTED]>@metalab.unc.edu->@7un.org->@externe.net) http://externe.net/geekcode http://externe.net/photos GPG: 92EB37C1 DD11C9C9 20519D01 E8FA1B11 42975AF7 http://externe.net/pubkey _______________________________________________ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-dev
