[Trisquel-users] Re : DRM to make it into HTML5 standard?

[magicbanana]

We will not resume a discussion we have already had but, anyway, three times  
writing that users steal movies is too much: "stealing" is defined, in the  
law, as a *subtraction* of someone's else property. There is no subtraction  
in the copy of a file. Copying is not theft. The *content industry* (as it  
calls itself) one more time uses newspeak to blame the users for being good  
citizens (sharing their culture, using the network in a scalable way, etc.).

My (not original) opinion about DRMs: I do not see any ethics in them.  
Sections that cannot be skipped; ability for the "content provider" to remove  
the good you acquire; geographic limitations; player that is imposed (and  
usually proprietary); impossibility to cite; deny of private copying... DRMs  
are about controlling private usages. That should never be allowed. If I want  
to read a book or play a song/movie from the end to the beginning and  
upside-down, that is my right.