| Subject | Re: Why DRM exists [was Re: Flame Linus to a crisp!] | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 27 Apr 2003 22:56:26 +0100 |
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On Sul, 2003-04-27 at 23:36, Larry McVoy wrote: > But you are still missing the point. As long as the feeling is that it is > OK to reverse engineer by staring at the file formats, the corporations > will respond by encrypting the data you want to stare at.
And government if it is smart will reply by enforcing reverse engineering rights *for compatibility* (not cloning), or business (the surviving bits anyway) will figure it out and do it themselves.
> In other words, it's pretty much hopeless to try and catch up that way, > you might as well go try and build something better from the start.
You have to interoperate to do that.
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