On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, James Michael DuPont wrote: > The argument of the DRM proponents is that it is not possible to > protect their content without taking away the rights of the students.
Students? What about non-students? Even further off topic is the fact that they also argue that recipients should not have rights that they currently do (cf "fair use"). > Now the one issue is that even if the users should have the right to > examine the source code of the software, we still need a way to prevent > them from extracting the content out of that software. That would be quite a trick. [snip a lot of words, which don't really address any problem that I can see.] Fundamentally, if the client is open-source, it can be modified, and the modified version can LIE and say it's the original version. Anything which prevents this is not open-source. -- Mark Rafn [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://www.dagon.net/> -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3
