From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261706AbTD0Tzw (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Apr 2003 15:55:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261707AbTD0Tzw (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Apr 2003 15:55:52 -0400 Received: from gw.enyo.de ([212.9.189.178]:40975 "EHLO mail.enyo.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261706AbTD0Tzv (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Apr 2003 15:55:51 -0400 To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Why DRM exists 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> From: Florian Weimer Mail-Followup-To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 22:08:05 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20030427171007$6d24@gated-at.bofh.it> (Larry McVoy's message of "Sun, 27 Apr 2003 19:10:07 +0200") Message-ID: <87bryrg0uy.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> User-Agent: Gnus/5.09002 (Oort Gnus v0.20) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Larry McVoy writes: > The open source community, in my opinion, is certainly a > contributing factor in the emergence of the DMCA and DRM efforts. > This community thinks it is perfectly acceptable to copy anything > that they find useful. Yes, of course. What's so bad about sharing with your friends? If a thing doesn't diminish by sharing, you don't own it properly unless you share it. But it's still illegal in many cases, so the free software people had to start mostly from scratch.