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DRM Not needed

I am old enough to remember goverment-dictated 85 mph speedomenters and governors proposed. I remember Indiana legislating that an ugly single light had to be mounted on every vehicle in the state with the light;s filament running through the ignition circuit. Light burned out, car stops.

All of this and DRM protect some sort of good intention but there in every case there are easy means to accomplish the same thing; radars on cop cars, officers who can see a headlamp and a simple catching someone distributing copied material for pay.

All of these scenarios a business group is given enormous power by our goverment to make it easy for perpetrators to be caught. If we do the DRM, why not legislate that every vehicle in the US have real-time GPS and function monitoring so an officer can instantly see the flashing greed light on my car and know I did something wrong.

The laws are already there to punish us if we are caught doing something outside the wishes of the property owner. But in reality, it will be a marketplace decision -- One of the nails in the leading spreadsheet's coffin (Lotus 123) was a copy scheme that trashed items it was not supposed to. So if the vast majority of us who think it is better to spend less than $20 to get an HD disk already programmed than spend hours downloading and somehow getting it up on the screen boycott anything DRM then they will stop enforcing it. And the attorneys involved will have to get honest jobs like "pursuing" ambulances or "helping" folks get divorced.

Posted by: TomMariner   Posted on: 05/02/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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