On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 09:19, Gabriel Gunderson wrote: > I'll bite. I think DRM will be the way of the future. The current is > to strong to fight. I also think it will be a good thing, so long as > others don't decide what your RIGHTS are and MANAGE them for you.
Your statements are contradictory, however. DRM only matters when the content is being distributed and that requires that the recipient's rights to the content are being managed by the distributor. It's inherent in the system. Help, help! I'm being repressed! DRM is wrong (not just a bad idea, but wrong) because it makes copyrights last forever which is a complete bastardization of the original idea. I'm all for copyrights. I think they're great tools for encouraging and rewarding artists. But it's a balance between the artist and the society, and if either side gets out of whack the whole system crumbles apart. Look at how 60 million people (more than voted for GW Bush) jumped onto Napster. Clearly there's some resentment among the population. "The tighter your grip, the more star systems will slip through your fingers." Corey ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
