At 08:07 AM 9/30/2002 -0400, Guylhem Aznar wrote:
>On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 06:40:49AM -0400, David A. Desrosiers wrote:
> > Absolutely not, you miss the point. Preventing copy is ensuring
> > proper use and protecting copyright of the document creator/holder.
>
>That's creating an artificial scarcity for an unlimited resource (digital
>data). It goes against the very rules of capitalism from Adam Smith
>times.
Not really; I think you misappropriate his intent and meaning. Anyhow,
there was no such concept for art (even poetry) back then... printing was
expensive and recording had yet to be invented. Keep in mind he died over
200 years ago. Al Gore hadn't even finished inventing the internet back then!
>With a DRM plucker, you would be sold document only readable on your
>own device. You buy a new handheld? Pay again.
This is an "open-source" project. If you don't like how it works, you can
download and change it. I've had a Palm now for barely ten days, and I've
already done this and had code accepted back into the project fixing some
bugs and implementing a new feature that had been planned but not
implemented before.
So what you could do is build a DRM-ignoring Plucker. It would be very
easy - at worst, simply commenting out a flag-check.
Of course, you miss another point too... you don't HAVE to buy something
that is copy-protected. You can do without, buy from another vendor, or do
what these fine folk have done and roll your own. This applies to content
even more than to hard goods; there's no special degree required to write
an e-book (or any other kind), to tell stories, to play music. I have a
freeware encyclopedia on my disk somewhere.
There may be some content you have a strong craving for that is digitally
protected. At that point you have to set your ideals against each-other...
do you want the content more (and supporting the artist, in theory), or do
you want to hew to the ideal that all content should be trust-based? But
either way it's not a Plucker issue. You can get the source, you can do
what you want with it within the GPL. Therefore philosophical DRM
discussions probably don't really fit on the Plucker board.
Tony McNamara
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