Re: Why DRM exists

Florian Weimer (fw@deneb.enyo.de)
Sun, 27 Apr 2003 22:08:05 +0200


Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com> writes:

> The open source community, in my opinion, is certainly a
> contributing factor in the emergence of the DMCA and DRM efforts.
> This community thinks it is perfectly acceptable to copy anything
> that they find useful.

Yes, of course. What's so bad about sharing with your friends? If a
thing doesn't diminish by sharing, you don't own it properly unless
you share it.

But it's still illegal in many cases, so the free software people had
to start mostly from scratch.
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