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| DATE | 2003-10-13 |
| FROM | Ruben I Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [hangout] Re: DRM Revolt
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> >
> > The people who create content have the rights to do with that content what
> > they wish.
>
This is not true. Everyone creates content, everywhere, all the time.
We all have the right to participate equally in our civilization according to
our ability and capacity. This right is enshriened in the US Constitution
in the 1,4 and 5th amendments. This is the lynch pin basis for the conception
of Free Software.
People who create cultural artifacts, called by brain washed individuals with
a horrible political agend as "Content", have no inhenent rights to the work
in either a strictly anthropological sense, or a legal one. The public is the
OWNER of all published works.
You must be confusing the comerical franshise of a Copyright Monopoly with
a human right. the amalgamating of the two concepts, one a biological need
and the basis of human civilization, and the other a legal privledge to foster
more public works, misleads others into believing that copyright privledges are some
kind of basic human right, like the right to private ownership of property or
the freedom of speach. It is not.
In fact, the purpose of the GPL and Free Software is to assure the healthy
free participation of individuals with the core informational systems which
incresingly shape their living experience. In this regard, Free Software
is pivotal for the support of a free civilization, whereas copyright plays no
role in this whatsoever.
DRM is not possible with Free Software, as Linus pointed out in his email on this
topic, since the PRIMARY KEY needs to be public.
Furthermore, DRM is a tool to COUNTER the liberty which indiviuals now enjoy
with regard to the information and knowledge they own and possess. In this
regard, it is not only counter to Free Software, but is harmful to the broader
civilization which we now enjoy.
Regards
Ruben
> Including putting it under the GPL...
>
> >
> > If you don't like DRM, don't use products that have DRM.
>
> Yes Marc, If YOU don;t like the GPL don't YOU use products that use the
> GPL. You CONSTANTLY use products that use the GPL, yet you constantly
> RIP the GPL.
>
> You are CONSTANTLY ripping LINUX yet you hang out in the M LINUX USERS
> GROUP.
>
> Actually it seems more lile you HATE LINUx and it's users.
>
> 1. Again you stand up for DRM and rip the GPL...
> 2. When is the last time you said ANYTHING positive about linux?
> go ahead.... I have emails stored since Apr 22..
>
> MarkP
>
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