On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 12:34:37PM -0500, David Champion wrote: > * On 2002.07.18, in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > * "Jay R. Ashworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > You obviously have not been following the activities of Senator > > Hollings, D-Disney, whose SSSCA indeed wants to make the very *design* > > of Linux illegal. > > How does this conflict with the design of Linux (or, presumably, any > other operating system)? Why is it not possible to integrate DRM support > into Linux?
Because the open design of Linux makes it impossible to *hide* the things which the law would required be hidden. I didn't make this stuff up; look here: http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/opinions/3813/1/ http://www.troubleshooters.com/tpromag/200111/200111.htm#_SSSCAsBitterHarvest http://old.lwn.net/2001/1025/ http://www.sonic.net/~rknop/rant.html#sssca and a whole lotta buncha stuff here: http://dmoz.org/Society/Issues/Intellectual_Property/Copyrights/Consumer_Broadband_and_Digital_Television_Promotion_Act/News_and_Media/ one of the pieces in which is exceptionally good: http://www.networkcomputing.com/buzzcut/bc24sep01.html > > Please, nobody tell Hollings about CS First Boston and the NYSE, not to > > mention a large chunk of the backbone. I wanna see what happens when > > everyone just shuts their Linux boxes down because they've been > > declared illegal. > > Existing systems are grandfathered. It's not clear (to me) whether this > applies only to hardware devices, or also to software; or whether a > device wishing to be grandfathered needs to be sponsored by some legal > entity. The final outcome will be that no one will manufacture non-SSSCA compliant peripherals like, oh, *hard drives*... and since Linux will not be able to talk to the encrypted ones, it won't *matter* that it's considered a "circumvention device", it just won't be able to run at all. > Not that I support the SSSCA; I just think it pays better to fight on > fair terms. So do I. In consequence of which I'm not sure what you mean by that. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Member of the Technical Staff Baylink RFC 2100 The Suncoast Freenet The Things I Think Tampa Bay, Florida http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 "If you don't have a dream; how're you gonna have a dream come true?" -- Captain Sensible, The Damned (from South Pacific's "Happy Talk") _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman-21/listinfo/mailman-developers
