[olug] Fw: FC: Linus Torvalds on digital rights management in Linux kernel

[Brian Wiese]

On Thu, 1 May 2003 22:02:39 -0500 (CDT)
Dave Hull <dphull at insipid.com> wrote:

|On Thu, 1 May 2003, Brian Wiese wrote:
|
|> But that's what my T-shirt says that I'm wearing today: "Question
|> Technology."  -- Computer Professionals For Social Responsibility --
|> http://www.cpsr.org
|> 
|> We should question the purpose and use of technological creations,
|> perhaps some things just shouldn't be done and perhaps some things
|> should. 
|
|I don't know all the ins and outs of DRM, but if it's like so many other 
|technologies, it is only a matter of time before some group of
|scientists, skilled technicians, hobbyists or what have you find a way to
|circumvent the technology. 
|
|Following that, there will be places from which people may download
|source code or purchase hardware which will allow non-technologically
|savvy folks to also circumvent the technology. 
|
|If laws are written to throw people in jail for such actions, then the
|prison construction business will benefit, if not the members of the
|"legal profession." Given that, I'm sure we'll see it introduced to the
|marketplace real soon.

I think you will find this interesting if you have not already..

The Right to Read
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html


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|Dave Hull
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