On 16/06/07, Dave Crossland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
So production companies who ask to justify software freedom and file sharing on the basis of how much money it makes are missing the point. We must not restrict sharing because it is unethical. We must not use proprietary software because it is unethical.
If you believe that there's some intrinsic ethical right to share content, then you are fundamentally opposed to copyright as a whole. In which case, there's no point in taking this conversation further, for two reasons. First, you're also ethically opposed to the existence of the BBC - an organisation which exists because copyright material exists, and secondly because you will simply break any DRM (it doesn't work anyway, remember?) and copy away anyway. If you come from the perspective that copyright should not exist, then frankly iPlayer and its ilk are irrelevant to you, and there's simply no point discussing it.
