and I also understand that along the same line there are people who dislike the copyright law, but the world at large (including us), has agreed upon UN conventions *to protect* basic rights world-wide!
It may be the *intent* of the DMCA to protect "basic rights", but as applied in the United States it's doing quite the opposite.
So, is the DMCA is not being applied properly, or the DMCA is not implementing the WIPO Treaties correctly? What is your standpoint? Or, better, what is Debian's standpoint? The free software community is ready to follow the IEEE standards in order to ensure compatibility, and is spreading his works all over the planet, but is also very shy with copyright. It is a good having a Linux journal published by the ACM, and cooperate with IEEE for better standards, but what about WIPO? The DMCA is not really a concern here, right?
Ends do not justify means, nor means ends.
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