David, I understand that DRM costs money and is never 100% effective, and I understand that it was a bit rubbish when the music industry made me pay again for downloads of music by dead people that I'd already purchased once on vinyl and then once again on CD.
And I'm hearing a lot about your freedom. But at the moment I enjoy my freedom to be able to publish a picture of my daughter in public on the Internet so that my family, colleagues and friends can see it easily, but also express my choice alongside it that the photograph belongs to me and it is not be used without my knowledge or consent on an advert. I genuinely don't understand why you think forcibly taking that freedom away from me in a complete abolition of copyright enhances society. Martin Belam, Information Architect, guardian.co.uk - currybet.net - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
