From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261320AbTD0SfZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Apr 2003 14:35:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261321AbTD0SfZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Apr 2003 14:35:25 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.224.33.161]:32191 "EHLO holomorphy") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261320AbTD0SfY (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Apr 2003 14:35:24 -0400 Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 11:47:35 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Larry McVoy , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Why DRM exists [was Re: Flame Linus to a crisp!] Message-ID: <20030427184735.GZ8978@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Larry McVoy , Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <20030424083730.5F79A2127F@dungeon.inka.de> <20030424085913.GH28253@mail.jlokier.co.uk> <3EA804A8.8070608@techsource.com> <1051209350.4004.6.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> <20030424192941.E1425@almesberger.net> <20030427142106.GA24244@merlin.emma.line.org> <20030427165959.GC6820@work.bitmover.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030427165959.GC6820@work.bitmover.com> Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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