Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 08:13 +0000, Sam Liddicott wrote:Well I propose that software includes calls to validation scripts to implement such measures, and that such scripts be specifiable by environment variables in order to upgrade such scripts to provide the er.. latest enforcement that is avilable. How sure are you that the law writers have sense? How about LD_PRELOAD and chums? There are too many ways to patch after distrbution such checks. There is no working DRM scheme yet apart from XBOX 360. Let the OS developers do their best to protect authors rights, the fact that they know their best is not good enough is not the point (unlike makers of proprietary software who make money out of claiming their DRM is good enough). I'm only partly serious Sam |
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