Re: Digital Rights Management
The connection with debian-devel is weak, but I suppose something like this
could become policy some day, so that's the connection.
This is probably just flamewar food, but I couldn't resist:
On 03/14/2001 01:40:14 PM "Ean R . Schuessler" wrote:
>> their ideas and creative works and that the work of the Free Software
>> movement is instrumental in depriving them of these things.
The "Free Software Movement" did not invent the cp command.
I recall doing quite a bit of xcopy on msdos back in the 80s...
Would be an amusing research project to determine when and where the first
copy command existed on a computer.
>> things I see happening with our software. Systems like Napster or
>> Freenet are creating a situation where the work of the artistic
>> community is being taken against their will. I cannot accept the
Fundamental confusion between the cp command and the mv command.
Can't take something "away" from someone if the original is still there.
Like saying I stole the experience of seeing the sunset because I didn't
pay you.
>> It seems to me that our community must create its own digital rights
>> management system that is an integral part of the GNU operating
>> system. While this may seem odd at first glance I think that it is a
And you will enforce the usage of this how? Good Luck, you'll need it.
>> moral necessity. We believe in sharing our work but that does not mean
>> that we are thieves or that we condone theft. Free Software has taken
See above comment on the confusion of cp and mv.
If I take your picture of the sunset off your desk, thats theft.
If I take my own picture of the sunset, or a picture of your picture,
that's not theft.
>> Art and music cannot grind to a halt and become hobbies. Creative
Painting did not grind to a halt when photography was invented.
Live music grind to a halt when recording technologies were invented.
>> theft. Digital rights management will happen, one way or another, and
>> it is an issue where we have to be in the drivers seat.
Why are you sure it will happen?
Kind of like saying time travel or FTL warp drives would be profitable for
large corporations, thus it must happen.
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