Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 9:30 PM, Jerry Stuckle <jstuckle@attglobal.net> wrote:
> On 5/19/2014 8:17 AM, Richard Hector wrote:
>>
>> On 20/05/14 00:14, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>>>
>>> On 5/19/2014 7:58 AM, Richard Hector wrote:
>>>>[...]
>>>> Actually I had a similar problem many years ago - I was working with a
>>>> perfectly legal but rather obsolete version of SCO Xenix, which had an
>>>> activation mechanism that was no longer supported. I would have liked to
>>>> reinstall the system (and was also at risk of damaging it), and had the
>>>> tape (!), but the activation service was no longer available. The
>>>> software in that case was still copyright, but (or at least my client)
>>>> was still perfectly entitled to use it, but technically prevented.
>>>>
>>>> Richard
>>>>
>>>
>>> I don't know the terms of the license, but it is perfectly valid for a
>>> company to put a time or other limit in a license. Your client may or
>>> may not have been entitled to continue to use it.
>>>
>>> But if the client were able to legally use it, I would think the current
>>> copyright owner would be obliged to provide an alternate activation
>>> mechanism. Getting them to do it may be difficult, though.
SCO Xenix?
Current copyright owner?
May be difficult?
For your reading pleasure, Jerry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO_Group
And you may be interested in this product of the rabble which you
think opposes you:
http://www.groklaw.net/
>> And in the case where the copyright has elapsed? The main point, rather
>> than my additional comment?
>>
>> Richard
>>
>
> Are you saying the only copy in the whole world is protected by DRM? I
> highly doubt that... And if it is, that would mean it was created since DRM
> went into effect.
Hmm. Are anti-copying provisions that pre-date the DMCA not considered
by you and your lawyer to be DRM?
> Which means the copyright won't expire for 75 years or
> more. By that time, anything computer-related will be so obsolete it will
> only be of interest to paleontologists. And other works (i.e. music,
> literature) will have been available in other media. In fact, in the United
> States, to copyright something you have to provide a copy of the material to
> the Copyright Office. So there is always at least one copy of something
> available.
>
> But can you show where that is occurring now? If not, I think you're
> looking for a problem which doesn't exist.
>
Did you read what Richard said?
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Joel Rees
Be careful where you see conspiracy.
Look first in your own heart.
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