On Monday 24 April 2006 08:33, Robert Snyder wrote:
>
> But it does not say that everyone has lost interest in it. The problem
> is that everyone is used to everything being FREE and OPEN that now they
> are thinking communistic thoughts like Richard Stallman and feels every
> convieveable thing should be free and open.
Communistic thoughts!!!
I don't know how old you are Snyder, but you seem awefully easily swayed into
witch hunt type of views.
Now I can tell that having lived in communist occupied Europe for a couple of
years it's not a communistic thing at all. Indeed AMERICA has a law called
fair use law, which gives us all certain rights to use and share. The digital
rights law is abused (according to judges) into somewhat attempting to curb
this law. But it's the same law that allow you to copy movies, record tv
programs, share CD's with friends AS LONG AS NO MONEY IS EXCHANGED.
Travelling Europe, Africa and North America, I've noticed certain groups being
very good with sharing what they have with each other. It's done as a
survival mechanism where the individual simply cannot make it alone. But as a
group they share labor and love, so to speak. We find that behavior in
communities, villages, cities and countries. We even see it cross borders on
an international scale.
It is a very dangerous thing starting in on using communism and what is good
in man at the same time. It is the kind of thoughts that would have been
welcome in occupied area's across the world, not with the fellow citizens but
with the occupier.
Stand up against unethical behavior all day long, but don't expect to fall in
line with oppressors and those who only want to line their own pockets at
everyone elses cost, without getting in my sights.
You don't have one incling of understanding what DRM is for, and I want
everyone else be have no doubts about it. For gods sake man, educate yourself
about DRM! Don't listen to the propaganda, but learn what it does!
> I dont care to call DRM, DRM but under it orginal name Content Protection
> Security. I say Content Proctection Security, and people dont seem to mind
> as much as saying DRM as the open source community has simply turned DRM
> into a dirty word.
As it should! It is no more needed that AIDS, also a man made "solution".
It's like saying that because of promiscuity, men and women are not allowed to
walk on the same street. It's not a solution, it's a problem in itself and
does not at all improve life.
--Steve Szmidt
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