[vorbis] OT: [vorbis-dev] DRM

[John Morton]

On Fri, 16 Aug 2002 23:37, Giuliano Pochini wrote:
> > > Here's a good article I read this morning, sums it up pretty well:
> > >
> > > http://news.com.com/2010-1071-949275.html?tag=politech
> > >
> > > In a nutshell, I think we lost what the founding fathers viewed as
> > > democracy a *long time ago in this country...
> >
> > So do what worked for crypto and open source - convince the industry that
> > DRM is a waste of their investors money and that they have more to gain
> > from allowing reverse engineering than prohibiting it. It might take a
> > few years to get crap like the DMCA repealed, but it's not impossible.
> > You just need to apply leverage in the right place.
>
> You can't do that in this time, when money is becoming more and more
> important than life every day. 

So appeal to the company you work for on money grounds. Reverse engineering 
created the commodity PC industry. Without it, you end up paying a fortune to 
a single company. The ability to circumvent copy restrictions allows you to 
exercise you fair use rights - including ones import to tech companies, like 
making backups. Reigning in the patent office and repealing obvious patents 
will see the US move to an environment where you don't have to pay protection 
money to big patent holders to avoid being sued. Regulation that controls 
what a license agreement can and can't demand - including making software 
vendors liable for software they sell you will force them to make better 
software. 

Supporting good regulation and throwing out the dumb stuff will reduce the 
risks and costs of being in business, thus increasing shareholder value. 

There. That wasn't so hard, was it?

John
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