From: Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Michael ODonald <mcodonald@yahoo.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org, gregkh@suse.de
Subject: Re: Abolishing the DMCA (was GPL only modules)
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 01:06:19 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061215010619.7d49fa6e@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <561312.27000.qm@web58907.mail.re1.yahoo.com>
> The best ways to get rich corporations on our side in fighting the
> DMCA is to use the DMCA to hurt their profits. Companies that rely on
> binary drivers would have several options:
>
> 1) Lobby politicians to repeal the DMCA,
They already are. The tech industry is mostly anti DMCA and there are
plenty of deeply proprietary companies who fought against the DMCA, are
fighting the US broadcast flag idiocy and so on. So you'd be fighting the
wrong people.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-15 0:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-14 21:09 Abolishing the DMCA (was GPL only modules) Michael ODonald
2006-12-14 21:32 ` Greg KH
2006-12-15 4:53 ` Abolishing the DMCA Alexandre Oliva
2006-12-15 1:06 ` Alan [this message]
2006-12-15 6:53 ` Abolishing the DMCA (was GPL only modules) Willy Tarreau
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