[olug] First time I ever liked a hacker

[andrew]

I agree that the debate surrounding DRM and TIA are concerning. However, 
I don't believe that the technology is 'bad.' Tech can't have a moral 
value. It's just tech. We can use tech for bad things or good things. 
Nuclear bomb vs. Nuclear power. Electric chair vs. Electric toaster.

For instance, if DRM were real then I could publish images and video 
streams that were garaunteed to be unaltered. If media moved to use this 
model, we could have trustworthy news. We would also have verifiable 
accountability. More trust is better. No more reports from a closet with 
a blue screen back drop, no more altered photographs in Time magazine.

Sure DRM can be used to enforce a publisher's will on content, but so 
what. Just don't buy the CD. If consumers find more value in being able 
to play the music of their choice than the ability to copy said CD, both 
sides win. DRM can also be used to ensure that the picture you've taken 
on your DRM enhanced camera, is unaltered and a true representation of 
what the camera saw at that moment.

"Do not be the typical sheeple and blindly accept what is being forced 
fed to you."

Like that DRM is bad?

I hope DRM is implemented by an OSS/Free Software group. What good is 
free speech if it can't be verified?

Andrew Holm-Hansen

IrishMASMS wrote:

><quote who="Jeff Hinrichs">
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>>I agree with your sentiments about hacking, however, I wouldn't refer to
>>it as a news site.
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>>-jeff
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>>Nick Walter said:
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>>>I think that any act of website hacking is rather childish.  It really
>>>reinforces the American ideal of free speech to see American patriots
>>>taking out a news web site.
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>>>I can certainly sympathize with the message the hackers were trying to
>>>send, but I think there were more appropriate ways of doing it.
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>>>Nick Walter
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>>>On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 14:55, drose.SCANTRON at scantron.com wrote:
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>>>>http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/03/27/sprj.irq.aljazeera.hacked.ap/index.html
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>>>>Former Marine
>>>>Daryl Rose
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>At RC5 [http://www.rubi-con.org/] last weekend, a reoccurring statement
>from many of the presenters & old timers was that defacing sites is
>childish and overplayed.
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>Let me remind you that free speech & the first amendment includes what you
>may disagree with. Free beer and open source software is a totally
>different issue; but both are tied together. With DRM heading at us, many
>in the open source world are deeply concerned – and you should be as well.
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>I will close with a question: are any of the supposed 'news' sources
>non-biased, reporting what really is happening in our world today?
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>For the sake of us all, be a smart consumer and gather all the information
>you can; them make your own decision. Do not be the typical sheeple and
>blindly accept what is being forced fed to you.
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>Is that not a reason why we/you are so attracted to open source?
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