From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262385AbTD3Uf7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2003 16:35:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262386AbTD3Uf6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2003 16:35:58 -0400 Received: from mail.webmaster.com ([216.152.64.131]:20991 "EHLO shell.webmaster.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262385AbTD3Uf6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2003 16:35:58 -0400 From: "David Schwartz" To: "Rik van Riel" , "Robert White" Cc: "Larry McVoy" , Subject: RE: Why DRM exists [was Re: Flame Linus to a crisp!] Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 13:48:18 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Importance: Normal Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, Robert White wrote: > > 1) the author has a right to profit from his creation > Not at all. Copyright law is to promote the progress of > sciences and arts; in short, it is about the rights of > mankind, not about the rights of authors. He was talking about moral rights, not legal rights. > The temporary monopoly which authors get over their work > is there to encourage authors to create more works, which > in turn benefit all of mankind. Just a side effect to > promote the good of the many. Schools were created to keep children out of the work force and to homogenize the immigrants, but nobody would argue that these are the reasons children should now go to school. The original reason for something is not automatically the reason that thing still exists. DS