Read a great article on Slashdot about the recent DRM workshop,
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/07/18/1219257, by al3x:
As the talks began, I was brimming with the enthusiasm and anger of an
activist, overjoyed at shaking hands with the legendary Richard
Stallman, thrilled with
AARG! Anonymous wrote:
David Wagner wrote:
The Hollings bill was interesting not for its success or failure, but
for what it reveals the content companies' agenda.
The CBDTPA, available in text form at
http://www.politechbot.com/docs/cbdtpa/hollings.s2048.032102.html,
does not explicitly call
David Wagner wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Legislation of DRM is not in the cards, [...]
Care to support this claim? (the Hollings bill and the DMCA requirement
for Macrovision in every VCR come to mind as evidence to the contrary)
The line you quoted was the summary from a message which
Anonymous wrote:
Legislation of DRM is not in the cards, [...]
Care to support this claim? (the Hollings bill and the DMCA requirement
for Macrovision in every VCR come to mind as evidence to the contrary)
On Mon, 8 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Voluntary DRM can never stop piracy. With voluntary DRM, people
can break once on one machine, then run the latest Napster
replacement on the every machine on the internet in non DRM mode,
and copy that file that was ripped on one machine, to
On Monday, July 8, 2002, at 04:01 PM, Anonymous wrote:
be available. A substantial number of consumers will voluntarily adopt
DRM if it lets them have a Napster-style system of music on demand,
with wide variety and convenient downloads, as long as the songs are not
too expensive.
I doubt
