DRM [Was: Torvolds on GPLv3]

[Adam Hawes]

> You think there are only two outcomes worth discussing:
> 
>    * Completely free, with no DRM at all;
> 
>    * Completely un-free, with no distribution to third parties at all.
> 

That is because there ARE only two outcomes worth discussing.  Sure, your 
intentions might be noble but at the end of the day not everyone is noble.
There exists corporations (*IAA, anyone) who would prefer to see the second 
of your two scenarios as common place.  If everything is non-free they can
force people to pay for even the most basic of things.

Imagine paying $30 for a MP3 download of a CD and then having to pay every
time you wanted to play it?

I accept that some of the examples you presented are perfectly valid, but at 
the end of the day you have to accept that anything other than the first 
scenario above brings with it the ability to easily move to the second.

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