On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Mathias Bauer wrote:
IMHO DRM does not necessarily give anyone control of your computer. At first DRM gives *you* control over your content and how it is used by others. For non-private use this can be a useful and important feature even for office programs.
In order for DRM to work, you must cede control of your computer. Otherwise, circumvention of the technology is trivial. Read up on how the LaGrande CPU is supposed to work. There is similar work with BIOS (Pheonix) and with hard drives.
Most implementations and proposed implementations of DRM violate both fair use and the doctrine of first sale. There are also issues about being able to lock out competitors -- it's a clear way to ensure that files created with one company's products cannot be opened by others.
If one wants to look at computers as a communications device, then DRM also raises problems with common carriage, though it seems that many multi-national corps would like folks (esp judges) to forget that ancient doctrine / law.
Nothing we know or teach today is the result of keeping knowledge secret or preventing its distribution.
-Lars
Lars Nooden ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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