On 31/10/2007, Richard Lockwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm not saying you *don't* ever buy music. Once you've bought it though -
> you want to copy it and give it to other people so they don't have to pay
> for it.
And what precisely is wrong with people wanting to copy stuff. Are you
denying you copy things? Did you not copy this message (From you ESP's
server to your machines RAM, then probably to the hard disk, maybe
into RAM again, onto a display unit)? (there was a time when the UK
Patent Office claimed that displaying something constituted copying)
If I buy a CD for £9 (seems about the going rate for a CD on HMV.com)
then that's extremely over priced if I am buying the medium (blank
CD's are a few pence). If however (as many argue) I am paying for the
information encoded onto the disc itself (you would probably call that
creativity, I don't because if I could encode creativity itself onto a
disc then I would be a very rich man) then why should I not take it
off the disc and put the data somewhere else?
Why is it so morally wrong for me to transfer something I have payed
for from it's transmission medium (CD) and place it on another storage
device I may own, e.g. PC hard drive, MP3 player, Network Streaming
Server, Cassette, etc. (I may or may not posses all of those btw.)
When you buy something from the web does the carrier insist you never
take the item out of the box? No they do not (generally).
Back on topic.
Did anyone get around to explaining why the BBC lied in that podcast,
there are open source DRM systems.
And did the person concerned get around to justifying his claim that
Open Source is less secure? If you are going to contradict some of the
best computer security experts you have to justify yourself. If the
BBC did nothing wrong with iPlayer why lie about it?.
Andy
--
Computers are like air conditioners. Both stop working, if you open windows.
-- Adam Heath
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