Re: [OS:N:] DRM and Open Source

[Seth Johnson <seth.johnson@realmeasures.dyndns.org>]

James,

DRM eliminates the fact/expression dichotomy.

You don't want it.

Exclusive rights don't cover information.  Only the original way you express
it.  Letting people bottle up so-called "content" so it can't be parsed and
used in a flexible fashion eliminates the advantages we gain from exclusive
rights policy.

We only give authors and inventors exclusive rights so that they will
provide us with information.  Giving them the power to control whether we
can parse "published" information is taking away fundamental rights to use
information freely.

More below.

James Michael DuPont wrote:
> 
> that is why I am starting to belive that DRM and F/OSS are
> incompatible, only when HW that contains algorithms on chip are brought
> in can this be done. That however reduces the ability for everyone to
> use it.


Stop Palladium and TCPA Now.

> http://www.nyfairuse.org/action/palladium/palladium.boycott.xhtml



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