Messages in this thread | | | From | Jesse Pollard <> | Subject | Re: Why DRM exists [was Re: Flame Linus to a crisp!] | Date | Wed, 30 Apr 2003 09:49:48 -0500 |
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On Wednesday 30 April 2003 08:59, Larry McVoy wrote: [snip] > Your post shows that you think that the reaction is bad and you even say > that the reaction is likely. You vigourously disagree with my conclusions > as to why the reaction is happening, I see that. OK, so let's try it > with a question rather than a statement: why are things like the DMCA and > DRM happening? It isn't the open source guys pushing those, obviously, > it's the corporations. So why are they doing it?
To force people to buy their media of course.
The data (most of it) is nearly zero cost (between 1 to around 8%). They can't stop you from copying the data. They just want to make that copy unusable.
That forces you to buy their media.
> Your answer has to be interesting because it seems to me that they are > doing it to protect their products, their product is sometimes content, > sometimes programs, sometimes both. An answer which says that open source > is not part of the cause also says that open source is irrelevant. > > You can't be both a force and not a force.
Philosophically, you can, provided that the direction of the forces are perpendicular. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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