DRM [Was: Torvolds on GPLv3]

[David Lloyd]

Janet,

>> Globalization in action, baby!
>>
>>    - mark
> 
> Globalisation = USFTA DMCA, WIPO Broadcast treaty.
> 
> Hopefully it does also include sustainable economies with the right to
> run different systems and laws choosing FOSS friendly strategies. Of
> course that will happen in places where the people are prepared to
> engage and promote that as important to their local culture or economy
> and be prepared to wear the brunt of non compliance.

Mark was saying, if I read correctly, that the free market will find a 
way to provide the goods, for example in the bit you didn't quote via 
offshore loopholes...

What you've added is your own hope and dream and I commend that; but 
they have NOTHING to do with the context of the bit you quoted Mark.

> Problems with trade with partners who differ (US) and systemic
> prejudice such as the quaint deeming provision, where if you are not a
> participant in the DMCA, work published in your country will be deemed
> to be printed in a signatory country first if they manage to do it
> within a month of your first publication.

I think that those opposed to DRM don't actually see the legitimate 
reasons for having it. The opposition hasn't convinced me that DRM or 
DMCA (or whatever damned acronym it is these days) is bad for what I 
perceive to be open source.

If they're not able to convince me (a recalcitrant, often argumentative 
person in the SA open source community), how are you going to convince 
the MAJORITY of the population you need to pass or not pass a law?

DSL