Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-23 Thread Jeff Bauer
On 05/22/2014 09:14 PM, Steve Litt wrote: On Tue, 20 May 2014 00:17:06 +1200 Richard Hector rich...@walnut.gen.nz wrote: And in the case where the copyright has elapsed? The main point, rather than my additional comment? Richard Few of us will be alive when Jerry's works go out of

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-22 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 20 May 2014 00:17:06 +1200 Richard Hector rich...@walnut.gen.nz wrote: And in the case where the copyright has elapsed? The main point, rather than my additional comment? Richard Few of us will be alive when Jerry's works go out of copyright, given that even if he died this very

Re: Off-topic posting (was Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management)

2014-05-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Calm down folks :)! A lot of us are subscribed to both lists, so there wouldn't be less traffic for us, OTOH its easy to use the OT list when already subscribed, since seemingly some are annoyed by the long threads about digital politics. Consider to continue at

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-21 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Ter, 20 Mai 2014, David Guntner wrote: PLEASE, for the love of $DEITY and to have some compassion for the people who are on this list because they want to discuss and read things pertaining to the Debian OS without drowning in so much off-topic noise that the list is becoming rendered

Re: Off-topic posting (was Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management)

2014-05-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2014-05-21 at 12:30 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Consider to continue at http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic just to do those a favour, who guess those threads don't belong to Debian user, regardless of whether they're right or wrong. Respect to Zenaan.

Re: Off-topic posting (was Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management)

2014-05-21 Thread Curt
On 2014-05-21, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: Elis Regina Tom Jobim- Waters of March (Portuguese version) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3oNSFQVzNMlist=RDg3oNSFQVzNM#t=31 Tom Jobim - The Girl from Ipanema (Portuguese version) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJzBxJ8ExRk

Re: Off-topic posting (was Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management)

2014-05-21 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 5/21/2014 1:37 AM, Bob Holtzman wrote: On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 08:12:36PM -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 5/20/2014 5:05 PM, David Guntner wrote: ..large snip. I've been using the internet since the 80's, and yes, I'm perfectly capable of kill-filing those

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-20 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 17 May 2014 21:40:56 +1000 Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net wrote: On 5/17/14, Slavko li...@slavino.sk wrote: ... Don't forget, that justice is not when all criminals are imprisoned and/or punished, but when no one blameless is persecuted. Very eloquent and beautiful words.

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-20 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 5/20/14, Celejar cele...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 17 May 2014 21:40:56 +1000 Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net wrote: On 5/17/14, Slavko li...@slavino.sk wrote: ... Don't forget, that justice is not when all criminals are imprisoned and/or punished, but when no one blameless is

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-20 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 5/20/14, Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net wrote: On 5/20/14, Celejar cele...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 17 May 2014 21:40:56 +1000 Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net wrote: On 5/17/14, Slavko li...@slavino.sk wrote: ... Don't forget, that justice is not when all criminals are imprisoned

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-20 Thread Joel Rees
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 10:00 PM, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Du, 18 mai 14, 23:06:57, Gary Dale wrote: DRM is a fence. My right to use things that I pay for is restricted by DRM. Get a refund. Ah, but the license says, NO REFUNDS! -- Joel Rees Be careful where you

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-20 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 20 May 2014 21:47:57 +1000 Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net wrote: On 5/20/14, Celejar cele...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 17 May 2014 21:40:56 +1000 Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net wrote: On 5/17/14, Slavko li...@slavino.sk wrote: ... Don't forget, that justice is not when

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-20 Thread Joel Rees
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 9:30 PM, Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net wrote: On 5/19/2014 8:17 AM, Richard Hector wrote: On 20/05/14 00:14, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 5/19/2014 7:58 AM, Richard Hector wrote: [...] Actually I had a similar problem many years ago - I was working with a perfectly

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-20 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 05/20/2014 09:07 AM, Celejar wrote: On Tue, 20 May 2014 21:47:57 +1000 Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net wrote: On 5/20/14, Celejar cele...@gmail.com wrote: But this is precisely the problem with some of the dogmatic idealists here - by

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-20 Thread Gary Dale
On 20/05/14 09:07 AM, Celejar wrote: On Tue, 20 May 2014 21:47:57 +1000 Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net wrote: On 5/20/14, Celejar cele...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 17 May 2014 21:40:56 +1000 Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net wrote: On 5/17/14, Slavko li...@slavino.sk wrote: ... Don't

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2014-05-20 at 21:57 +0900, Joel Rees wrote: On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 10:00 PM, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Du, 18 mai 14, 23:06:57, Gary Dale wrote: DRM is a fence. My right to use things that I pay for is restricted by DRM. Get a refund. Ah, but the

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-20 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 20 May 2014 09:15:39 -0400 The Wanderer wande...@fastmail.fm wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 05/20/2014 09:07 AM, Celejar wrote: On Tue, 20 May 2014 21:47:57 +1000 Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net wrote: On 5/20/14, Celejar cele...@gmail.com

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-20 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 20 May 2014 09:29:57 -0400 Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net wrote: On 20/05/14 09:07 AM, Celejar wrote: ... Of course. But while it's certainly not a zero-sum game, there's generally going to be a trade-off: increasing protections for defendants will save some innocents, at the

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-20 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 5/20/2014 9:09 AM, Joel Rees wrote: On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 9:30 PM, Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net wrote: On 5/19/2014 8:17 AM, Richard Hector wrote: On 20/05/14 00:14, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 5/19/2014 7:58 AM, Richard Hector wrote: [...] Actually I had a similar problem many

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-20 Thread Ric Moore
On 05/20/2014 09:45 AM, Celejar wrote: I'd like to ask that question of every politician, and every police officer, and so forth. I think it could be quite illuminating. Celejar Excellent topic! It needs to be on the OT list where it can get the debate it deserves. :) Ric -- My

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-20 Thread David Guntner
Celejar grabbed a keyboard and wrote: [blah blah blah off topic blah blah blah] People, this off-topic thread has dragged on WAY too long. There's a Debian off-topic mailing list, which exists specifically for that purpose - to let Debian users discuss things that aren't directly related to

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-20 Thread David Guntner
Zenaan Harkness grabbed a keyboard and wrote: [blah blah blah off topic blah blah blah] People, this off-topic thread has dragged on WAY too long. There's a Debian off-topic mailing list, which exists specifically for that purpose - to let Debian users discuss things that aren't directly related

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-20 Thread David Guntner
The Wanderer grabbed a keyboard and wrote: [blah blah blah off topic blah blah blah] People, this off-topic thread has dragged on WAY too long. There's a Debian off-topic mailing list, which exists specifically for that purpose - to let Debian users discuss things that aren't directly related to

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-20 Thread David Guntner
Jerry Stuckle grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Why would you be against someone protecting their intellectual property? I'm not, personally. I am, however very much against continued waste of bandwidth on this increasingly off-topic thread. Please take further discussion to the off-topic list,

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-20 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 5/20/2014 4:21 PM, David Guntner wrote: Jerry Stuckle grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Why would you be against someone protecting their intellectual property? I'm not, personally. I am, however very much against continued waste of bandwidth on this increasingly off-topic thread. Please

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-20 Thread David Guntner
Jerry Stuckle grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On 5/20/2014 4:21 PM, David Guntner wrote: Jerry Stuckle grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Why would you be against someone protecting their intellectual property? I'm not, personally. I am, however very much against continued waste of bandwidth on

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-20 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 5/20/2014 4:26 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 5/20/2014 4:21 PM, David Guntner wrote: Jerry Stuckle grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Why would you be against someone protecting their intellectual property? I'm not, personally. I am, however very much against continued waste of bandwidth on

Off-topic posting (was Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management)

2014-05-20 Thread David Guntner
David Guntner grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Jerry Stuckle grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Then don't add to the bandwidth with your please to stop. As you've been told before - just ignore the thread. And if you can't do that, get a email reader that will. No. Just because you and a small

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-20 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 20 May 2014 15:03:35 -0400 Ric Moore wayward4...@gmail.com wrote: On 05/20/2014 09:45 AM, Celejar wrote: I'd like to ask that question of every politician, and every police officer, and so forth. I think it could be quite illuminating. Celejar Excellent topic! It needs to be

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 03:15:44PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: DRM sucks! +10E -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. --- Malcolm X -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-20 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 9:29 AM, Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 03:15:44PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: DRM sucks! +10E Okay, now I have to chime in. Not only is this off topic (which I can't complain about, having been guilty of the same), but

Re: Off-topic posting (was Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management)

2014-05-20 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 5/20/2014 5:05 PM, David Guntner wrote: David Guntner grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Jerry Stuckle grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Then don't add to the bandwidth with your please to stop. As you've been told before - just ignore the thread. And if you can't do that, get a email reader that

Re: Off-topic posting (was Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management)

2014-05-20 Thread Jeff Bauer
On 05/20/2014 08:12 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 5/20/2014 5:05 PM, David Guntner wrote: David Guntner grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Jerry Stuckle grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Then don't add to the bandwidth with your please to stop. As you've been told before - just ignore the thread. And

Re: Off-topic posting (was Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management)

2014-05-20 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Top posting here, as everything below is WAY OT. Sorry, Jerry, as old a hand as you may be, you're wrong. Take this conversation elsewhere, and stop embarrassing yourself and polluting this otherwise useful list. Cheers Patrick On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 8:12 PM, Jerry Stuckle

Re: Off-topic posting (was Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management)

2014-05-20 Thread Zenaan Harkness
For future please use o-t list hinters, please CC the ot list, even if you're not subscribed, or perhaps only send to o-t list AND to the 'perpetrator'. On 5/21/14, Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net wrote: On 5/20/2014 5:05 PM, David Guntner wrote: Ok, that last bit was a bit insulting, and

Re: Off-topic posting (was Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management)

2014-05-20 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 08:12:36PM -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 5/20/2014 5:05 PM, David Guntner wrote: ..large snip. I've been using the internet since the 80's, and yes, I'm perfectly capable of kill-filing those topics. If all I was concerned about was just me,

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-19 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 5/19/14, Lee Winter lee.j.i.win...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 10:50 PM, Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net wrote: Are you aware that there is a useful (from the perspective of freedoms) distinction to be made between physical property and so-called 'intellectual property'?

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-19 Thread Bill Wood
On Mon, 2014-05-19 at 16:17 +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: . . . It involves skull sweat. Now there's a new term - I usually find my skin sweats, although to be honest I'm really not sure about my skull, since it's hidden from my immediate view. Just FYI, Robert Heinlein used skull sweat

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-19 Thread Zenaan Harkness
C... can't ... resist On 5/19/14, Lee Winter lee.j.i.win...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 10:13 AM, Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net wrote: A lot of people responding to this post don't seem to understand that freedom applies to more than just personal choice. The United States

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-19 Thread Richard Hector
On 19/05/14 15:06, Gary Dale wrote: The Internet is public property in the same way the roads that connect us are. DRM is a fence. My right to use things that I pay for is restricted by DRM. DRM is not part of the Internet any more than the lock on my car door is part of the road. (Doesn't

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-19 Thread Richard Hector
On 19/05/14 16:20, Carl Fink wrote: On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 12:50:44PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: On 5/19/14, Lee Winter lee.j.i.win...@gmail.com wrote: But, contrary to Stallman's arguments, intellectual property is real and worth protecting. RMS never said intellectual creations are

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-19 Thread Richard Hector
On 19/05/14 14:01, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 5/18/2014 9:47 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20140518_2131-0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 5/18/2014 6:39 PM, The Wanderer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 05/18/2014 05:49 PM, Tom H wrote: You seem to have an issue with

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-19 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 5/19/14, Richard Hector rich...@walnut.gen.nz wrote: On 19/05/14 16:20, Carl Fink wrote: On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 12:50:44PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: On 5/19/14, Lee Winter lee.j.i.win...@gmail.com wrote: But, contrary to Stallman's arguments, intellectual property is real and worth

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-19 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 5/19/14, Richard Hector rich...@walnut.gen.nz wrote: On 19/05/14 14:01, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 5/18/2014 9:47 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20140518_2131-0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 5/18/2014 6:39 PM, The Wanderer wrote: If the copyright on something restricted by DRM were to expire, and

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-19 Thread Richard Hector
On 19/05/14 04:00, Lee Winter wrote: Anyone who proposes to restrict my ability to choose, for or against, DRM-restricted property is making a proposition that I will _always_ res/ist./ After all, it is about freedom. Mine. I haven't seen any arguments in this thread threatening that.

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-19 Thread Richard Hector
On 19/05/14 20:43, Zenaan Harkness wrote: A more relevant request: how about an example of a digital (or any) recording that was released _with_DRM_ for which the copyright has now lapsed? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_mouse_law Isn't that the reverse? Mickey Mouse, when first

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-19 Thread Richard Hector
On 19/05/14 17:42, Lee Winter wrote: On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 10:50 PM, Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net mailto:z...@freedbms.net wrote: Are you aware that there is a useful (from the perspective of freedoms) distinction to be made between physical property and so-called

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-19 Thread Chris Angelico
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 7:24 PM, Richard Hector rich...@walnut.gen.nz wrote: I wouldn't call real estate a form of intellectual property; it's very physical. Real, even. On the other hand, I would still treat it differently from ordinary property, on the basis that it will continue to exist

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-19 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 5/19/14, Richard Hector rich...@walnut.gen.nz wrote: On 19/05/14 20:43, Zenaan Harkness wrote: A more relevant request: how about an example of a digital (or any) recording that was released _with_DRM_ for which the copyright has now lapsed? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_mouse_law

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-19 Thread Richard Hector
On 19/05/14 22:00, Chris Angelico wrote: On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 7:24 PM, Richard Hector rich...@walnut.gen.nz wrote: I wouldn't call real estate a form of intellectual property; it's very physical. Real, even. On the other hand, I would still treat it differently from ordinary property, on

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-19 Thread Chris Angelico
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 8:08 PM, Richard Hector rich...@walnut.gen.nz wrote: On 19/05/14 22:00, Chris Angelico wrote: On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 7:24 PM, Richard Hector rich...@walnut.gen.nz wrote: I wouldn't call real estate a form of intellectual property; it's very physical. Real, even. On

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-19 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 5/19/2014 4:31 AM, Richard Hector wrote: On 19/05/14 14:01, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 5/18/2014 9:47 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20140518_2131-0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 5/18/2014 6:39 PM, The Wanderer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 05/18/2014 05:49 PM, Tom H

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-19 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 5/19/2014 4:43 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: On 5/19/14, Richard Hector rich...@walnut.gen.nz wrote: On 19/05/14 14:01, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 5/18/2014 9:47 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20140518_2131-0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 5/18/2014 6:39 PM, The Wanderer wrote: If the copyright on

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-19 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 5/19/2014 6:08 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: On 5/19/14, Richard Hector rich...@walnut.gen.nz wrote: On 19/05/14 20:43, Zenaan Harkness wrote: A more relevant request: how about an example of a digital (or any) recording that was released _with_DRM_ for which the copyright has now lapsed?

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-19 Thread Erwan David
Le 19/05/2014 13:20, Jerry Stuckle a écrit : On 5/19/2014 6:08 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: On 5/19/14, Richard Hector rich...@walnut.gen.nz wrote: On 19/05/14 20:43, Zenaan Harkness wrote: A more relevant request: how about an example of a digital (or any) recording that was released

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-19 Thread Richard Hector
On 19/05/14 23:20, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 5/19/2014 6:08 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: On 5/19/14, Richard Hector rich...@walnut.gen.nz wrote: On 19/05/14 20:43, Zenaan Harkness wrote: A more relevant request: how about an example of a digital (or any) recording that was released _with_DRM_ for

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-19 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 5/19/2014 7:39 AM, Erwan David wrote: Le 19/05/2014 13:20, Jerry Stuckle a écrit : On 5/19/2014 6:08 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: On 5/19/14, Richard Hector rich...@walnut.gen.nz wrote: On 19/05/14 20:43, Zenaan Harkness wrote: A more relevant request: how about an example of a digital (or

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-19 Thread Richard Hector
On 19/05/14 23:50, Richard Hector wrote: Jerry - I was attempting to improve on the question Paul asked you. Apologies - I hadn't read all the new messages; I see you responded to me. Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-19 Thread Richard Hector
On 19/05/14 23:19, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 5/19/2014 4:31 AM, Richard Hector wrote: On 19/05/14 14:01, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 5/18/2014 9:47 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20140518_2131-0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 5/18/2014 6:39 PM, The Wanderer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-19 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 5/19/2014 7:58 AM, Richard Hector wrote: On 19/05/14 23:19, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 5/19/2014 4:31 AM, Richard Hector wrote: On 19/05/14 14:01, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 5/18/2014 9:47 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20140518_2131-0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 5/18/2014 6:39 PM, The Wanderer

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-19 Thread Richard Hector
On 20/05/14 00:14, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 5/19/2014 7:58 AM, Richard Hector wrote: On 19/05/14 23:19, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 5/19/2014 4:31 AM, Richard Hector wrote: On 19/05/14 14:01, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 5/18/2014 9:47 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20140518_2131-0400, Jerry Stuckle

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-19 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 5/19/2014 8:17 AM, Richard Hector wrote: On 20/05/14 00:14, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 5/19/2014 7:58 AM, Richard Hector wrote: On 19/05/14 23:19, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 5/19/2014 4:31 AM, Richard Hector wrote: On 19/05/14 14:01, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 5/18/2014 9:47 PM, Paul E Condon

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-19 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 05/19/2014 01:42 AM, Lee Winter wrote: I said above that intellectual property is the most pure form of property. That statement is based on the fact that intellectual property is nothing _but_ human labor. Just not physical labor. There is

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-19 Thread Richard Hector
On 20/05/14 00:30, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 5/19/2014 8:17 AM, Richard Hector wrote: On 20/05/14 00:14, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 5/19/2014 7:58 AM, Richard Hector wrote: On 19/05/14 23:19, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 5/19/2014 4:31 AM, Richard Hector wrote: On 19/05/14 14:01, Jerry Stuckle wrote:

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-19 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 18 mai 14, 23:06:57, Gary Dale wrote: DRM is a fence. My right to use things that I pay for is restricted by DRM. Get a refund. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers:

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-19 Thread Chris Angelico
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 10:30 PM, Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net wrote: In fact, in the United States, to copyright something you have to provide a copy of the material to the Copyright Office. So there is always at least one copy of something available. Are you sure of that? I thought

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-19 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 05/19/2014 09:18 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 10:30 PM, Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net wrote: In fact, in the United States, to copyright something you have to provide a copy of the material to the Copyright

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-19 Thread Chris Angelico
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 11:26 PM, The Wanderer wande...@fastmail.fm wrote: On 05/19/2014 09:18 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 10:30 PM, Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net wrote: In fact, in the United States, to copyright something you have to provide a copy of the

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-19 Thread Richard Hector
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 20/05/14 01:26, The Wanderer wrote: If a copy were indeed required to be registered with the Copyright Office, that would sharply reduce or potentially eliminate the no non-DRMed copy available to enter the public domain objection to DRM.

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-19 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 05/19/2014 09:44 AM, Richard Hector wrote: On 20/05/14 01:26, The Wanderer wrote: If a copy were indeed required to be registered with the Copyright Office, that would sharply reduce or potentially eliminate the no non-DRMed copy available

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-19 Thread Chris Angelico
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 11:52 PM, The Wanderer wande...@fastmail.fm wrote: I was just thinking of a slightly more limited approach: decide that if the work is covered by DRM, then unless a non-DRMed copy is on file with the central archive, anti-circumvention law does not apply. In other

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf
After just reading a few mails of this topic, I want to mention, that there's a difference between copyright and right of publication. Don't mix copyright and related rights. In Germany copyright is named Urheberrecht, translated word by word it's creator-right. In Germany we know the

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-19 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 5/19/2014 9:18 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 10:30 PM, Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net wrote: In fact, in the United States, to copyright something you have to provide a copy of the material to the Copyright Office. So there is always at least one copy of something

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-19 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 5/19/2014 10:16 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: After just reading a few mails of this topic, I want to mention, that there's a difference between copyright and right of publication. Don't mix copyright and related rights. In Germany copyright is named Urheberrecht, translated word by word it's

OT: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2014-05-19 at 11:28 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: This is why most songs, commercial computer programs, etc. are registered. Many musicians are member of collecting societies. The celebrity musicians benefit from the mafia-like approach of those collecting societies. The unknown musicians

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-19 Thread David Guntner
People, this off-topic thread has dragged on WAY too long. There's a Debian off-topic mailing list, which exists specifically for that purpose - to let Debian users discuss things that aren't directly related to Debian. PLEASE, for the love of $DEITY and to have some compassion for the people

OT: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2014-05-19 at 11:32 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: RIAA and collecting society mafias, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_copyright_collection_societies#United_States comparable to the German GEMA mafia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_copyright_collection_societies#Germany are

Re: Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-19 Thread Hudson Flavio Meneses Lacerda
Chris Angelico wrote: On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 11:52 PM, The Wanderer wande...@fastmail.fm wrote: I was just thinking of a slightly more limited approach: decide that if the work is covered by DRM, then unless a non-DRMed copy is on file with the central archive, anti-circumvention law does not

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-19 Thread Lee Winter
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 5:24 AM, Richard Hector rich...@walnut.gen.nzwrote: On 19/05/14 17:42, Lee Winter wrote: On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 10:50 PM, Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net mailto:z...@freedbms.net wrote: Are you aware that there is a useful (from the perspective of

Re: OT: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-19 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 5/19/2014 11:49 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2014-05-19 at 11:28 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: This is why most songs, commercial computer programs, etc. are registered. Many musicians are member of collecting societies. The celebrity musicians benefit from the mafia-like approach of

Re: OT: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-19 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 5/19/2014 12:09 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2014-05-19 at 11:32 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: RIAA and collecting society mafias, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_copyright_collection_societies#United_States comparable to the German GEMA mafia

Re: OT: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2014-05-19 at 12:49 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 5/19/2014 12:09 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2014-05-19 at 11:32 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: RIAA and collecting society mafias, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_copyright_collection_societies#United_States comparable

Re: OT: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2014-05-19 at 19:06 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2014-05-19 at 12:49 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 5/19/2014 12:09 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2014-05-19 at 11:32 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: RIAA and collecting society mafias,

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-19 Thread Tom H
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 11:06 PM, Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net wrote: On 18/05/14 06:40 PM, Tom H wrote: On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 4:06 PM, Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net wrote: So I am free to build a fence on public property that denies my neighbour the right to access his house? That seems

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 11:33:48PM +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: England (or Great Britain - I'm not sure which) in the late 1800s. One of my other interests, Gilbert and Sullivan, is notably impacted by that, as the license copy of a play wasn't necessarily identical to what ended up being

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 01:39:35PM +0200, Erwan David wrote: 2) When lawmakers are paid to orient what they do this is usually called corruption. Unfortunately, what is corruption in one country is just common business practice in another. -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-19 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 5/20/14, Lee Winter lee.j.i.win...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 5:24 AM, Richard Hector rich...@walnut.gen.nzwrote: On 19/05/14 17:42, Lee Winter wrote: On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 10:50 PM, Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net mailto:z...@freedbms.net wrote: Are you aware

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-18 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 11:54:52AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: On 5/18/14, Ric Moore wayward4...@gmail.com wrote: On 05/17/2014 07:55 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: Nobody forces you to install the add-on, certainly not Mozilla or Debian. And that is the part I don't get. Anyone is free to

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-18 Thread Gary Dale
On 15/05/14 04:43 PM, Ralph Katz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Free Software Foundation statement may clear some confusion expressed on this list. https://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-condemns-partnership-between-mozilla-and-adobe-to-support-digital-restrictions-management

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-18 Thread Chris Angelico
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 12:13 AM, Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net wrote: Just as no one forced Americans to own slaves, the fact that slavery was allowed was an insult to notion of freedom. Arguing that the freedom to choose whether to own slaves or not made Americans freer would be called

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-18 Thread Slavko
Ahoj, Dňa Mon, 19 May 2014 00:46:57 +1000 Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com napísal: On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 12:13 AM, Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net wrote: Just as no one forced Americans to own slaves, the fact that slavery was allowed was an insult to notion of freedom. Arguing that the

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-18 Thread Slavko
Ahoj, Dňa Sat, 17 May 2014 21:00:48 +0900 Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com napísal: What Mozilla is doing is providing a framework for keeping the companies that want into your computer out, by providing them tools to get only what the law allows them and no more. I am not lawyer, then i will

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-18 Thread Chris Angelico
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 1:19 AM, Slavko li...@slavino.sk wrote: The Samba doesn't allow to use of proprietary software. Samba only uses the SMB protocol (i can be wrong, but it is standardized), which Windows uses (as primary) too. But you can connect two Samba between themselves, then no

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-18 Thread Chris Angelico
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 1:26 AM, Slavko li...@slavino.sk wrote: Dňa Sat, 17 May 2014 21:00:48 +0900 Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com napísal: What Mozilla is doing is providing a framework for keeping the companies that want into your computer out, by providing them tools to get only what the

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-18 Thread Lee Winter
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 10:13 AM, Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net wrote: A lot of people responding to this post don't seem to understand that freedom applies to more than just personal choice. The United States was not a free nation while it accepted slavery and Firefox is not free software

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-18 Thread Lee Winter
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 11:26 AM, Slavko li...@slavino.sk wrote: Ahoj, Dňa Sat, 17 May 2014 21:00:48 +0900 Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com napísal: What Mozilla is doing is providing a framework for keeping the companies that want into your computer out, by providing them tools to get

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-18 Thread Gary Dale
On 18/05/14 12:00 PM, Lee Winter wrote: On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 10:13 AM, Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net mailto:garyd...@torfree.net wrote: A lot of people responding to this post don't seem to understand that freedom applies to more than just personal choice. The United States was

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-18 Thread Gary Dale
On 18/05/14 11:26 AM, Slavko wrote: Ahoj, Dňa Sat, 17 May 2014 21:00:48 +0900 Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com napísal: What Mozilla is doing is providing a framework for keeping the companies that want into your computer out, by providing them tools to get only what the law allows them and no

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-18 Thread Lee Winter
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 12:35 PM, Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net wrote: So freedom from doesn't include freedom from DRM? Of course you are free from DRM. Just don't buy/install content that is restricted by DRM. Unfortunately the DMCA and its international clones prohibit me from

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-18 Thread Gary Dale
On 18/05/14 01:49 PM, Lee Winter wrote: On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 12:35 PM, Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net mailto:garyd...@torfree.net wrote: So freedom from doesn't include freedom from DRM? Of course you are free from DRM. Just don't buy/install content that is restricted by DRM.

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