Digital rights (and wrongs)

Undertoad · 11-07-2001, 12:14 AM

Excellent post, on a critical subject.

It's all about the file formats. If the kids can't rip and rewrite on XP systems, suddenly there is a call for many times the current number of Linux desktops. Talk about your killer app.

I have an awful lot of faith in the dorm-bound masses. They will determine what doesn't work, and find the ways around it. They will rewrite the rulebook again, and hopefuly nobody will get hurt except the weasels.

What the media companies need to understand is that such prohibitions won't work unless they only hurt a little bit. It's like.... I'm not going out of my way to break region encoding on my DVD player, because I don't know of any DVDs that I want that I can't watch anyway.

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11-07-2001, 12:14 AM	#2
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Excellent post, on a critical subject. It's all about the file formats. If the kids can't rip and rewrite on XP systems, suddenly there is a call for many times the current number of Linux desktops. Talk about your killer app. I have an awful lot of faith in the dorm-bound masses. They will determine what doesn't work, and find the ways around it. They will rewrite the rulebook again, and hopefuly nobody will get hurt except the weasels. What the media companies need to understand is that such prohibitions won't work unless they only hurt a little bit. It's like.... I'm not going out of my way to break region encoding on my DVD player, because I don't know of any DVDs that I want that I can't watch anyway.

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