[advocacy] Open/Free/Personal music licenses

[Moritz Grimm]

Bacchus Thirteen wrote:
> --- Daniel James <daniel at mondodesigno.com> wrote:
> > The content industry has turned it into a
> > with-us-or-against-us
> > battle. If you don't restrict the use of your
> > player/encoder/format
> > on their terms, you are their enemy.
> I am afraid to say that this you-or-me thing rather
> likely limits our freedom.  I know that media and
> software contents industry are putting money on that
> SSSCA thing, which, I think, is completely absurd.  To

Yes. Although I don't live in America, the SSSCA will affect me since
lots of technology gets imported from the U.S., not to speak of the tons
of software. Especially open-source is at stake here. Google for SSSCA
and check out the first 3 hits ... it's horrible. To me, this sounds
like plain dictatorship, combined with censoring. If I can't distribute
my music in any way I want, because "insecure" formats have become
illegal, I don't know what to say except &%!"§%" and &"§%$§. Argh. I'm
really upset. I mean ... _America_!! The land of free speech, model
democracy! How can your elected representatives even think about wasting
your freedoms, because of terrorists, script kiddies and whining
companies that blame their user for THEIR not working security
mechanisms?? The money they invest on pushing things like the DMCA and
the SSSCA would be spent way better on more research on proper
protection mechanisms. Some states in America still have death penalty.
Does it prevent people from murdering each other? No. Will those new
laws prevent black-hat hackers? No. Ethical hackers get in jail, though.
Free Dimitry. :P

Whow ... sorry for this mostly off-topic mail. I just had to write this
... feeling better already, now let's watch how it gets lost in a mail
archive. Nobody seems to care in the "real world" anyways. Do these
congressmen know what open source is? And why it is good? And why it can
happily coexist with proprietary software? Or do they only care about
their major tax payers like Microsoft?

Moritz


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