On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 10:51:05PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > Hi A, > welcome to your first exposure to politics of Free software! DVD css was > the first flagpole that the entertainment lobby put in the ground to lay > claim to your property. Css provides no other use but to forbid you from > fully owning your own property. The next flagpole is apple's DRM that > they use on their music that stop you from using it anywhere you want. > Then there was Microsoft windows media player DRM. The other day I > wanted to see channel4.com's new video-on-demand but it even tighens the > noose more: it requires you to be in the UK to watch the content (that > you pay for), only on one computer (that cant be transfered) and you > need to install window xp, .net 2.0 and window media player 10 and then > you can only watch it once and when you start to watch it, you have a > time limit of a day before you are no longer authorized to watch it, the > DRM essentially prevents you from watching something that you payed for, > on your own computer. At least the DVD only has CSS and its companion > the DMCA and it doesnt stop you from watching your own DVD. The point > with Free software is any free software program that you use to play a > DVD, apple i-tunes file, other other DRM formats will always be a crime > according to most nations laws with help from WIPO.(there are exceptions > to this statement, as other can attest, but its not getting better) Go > to wikipedia and check out 'drm', 'dmca' and 'decss' for the basic > details. Anyway, even Pink Floyd could not have dreamed up something so > twisted as DRM :-) > cheers, > Kev
(hope these links still exist.) http://www.eff.org/Infrastructure/trusted_computing/20031001_tc.php http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html OK, these links are old but they are indicative of worse to come. -- Chris. ====== " ... the official version cannot be abandoned because the implication of rejecting it is far too disturbing: that we are subject to a government conspiracy of `X-Files' proportions and insidiousness." Letter to the LA Times Magazine, September 18, 2005. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
