Re: Why DRM exists [was Re: Flame Linus to a crisp!]

William Lee Irwin III
2003-04-27T18:35:25Z

On Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 09:59:59AM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
> Do you think that corporations are going sit by and watch you do that and
> do nothing to stop you? Of course they aren't, they have a strong self
> preservation instinct and they have the resources to apply to the problem.
> The DMCA, DRM, all that stuff is just the beginning. You will respond
> with all sorts of clever hacks to get around it and they will respond
> with even more clever hacks to stop you. They have both more resources
> and more at stake so they will win.
> The depressing thing is that it is so obvious to me that the corporations
> will win, they will protect themselves, they have the money to lobby the
> government to get the laws they want and build the technology they need.
> The more you push back the more locked up things will become.

They can drop down all the crypto dongles they want for mp3's/DVD's etc.
and I don't care; I buy all my stuff anyway.

What I _do_ care about is that this looks like it'll be used to stop
me from running Linux altogether.

-- wli