Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 11:06 PM, Gary Dale <garydale@torfree.net> wrote:
> On 18/05/14 06:40 PM, Tom H wrote:
>> On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 4:06 PM, Gary Dale <garydale@torfree.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> So I am free to build a fence on public property that denies my neighbour
>>> the right to access his house? That seems to be the crux of your
>>> argument.
>>
>> You ought to go in to politics because this is yet another ridiculous
>> parallel of the kind that politicians use to fool voters.
>>
>> In what way are Mozilla, Adobe, or a copyright holder building a fence
>> on public property when a user freely installs a plugin on his/her own
>> computer in order to download restricted content? It's all done
>> without impinging on anyone else's property or liberty.
>
> The Internet is public property in the same way the roads that connect us
> are. DRM is a fence. My right to use things that I pay for is restricted by
> DRM.
What nonsense.
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