"Mark Kent" <mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> 7 <website_has_email@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Oliver Wong wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> "7" <website_has_email@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>>> Asstroturfer Erik Funkenbusch wrote on behalf of micoshaft corporation:
>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 09:59:20 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> MPAA: Frustrated Consumers Will Pirate
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ,----[ Excerpt ]
>>>>>>| The MPAA's Brad Hunt outlined some of the ways the MPAA is working
>>>>>>| to standardize content protection controls in the age of digital
>>>>>>| home networking. But he also acknowledged that piracy is the
>>>>>>| consumer's answer to the content industry's inability to provide
>>>>>>| a simple digital-rights-management solution.
>>>>>> `----
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20061016/tc_zd/191502
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It seems like the MPAA is beginning to digest what happens when
>>>>>> people
>>>>>> get exposed to the messiness of Digital Restriction Mess, e.g.
>>>>>> inability to transport purchased content (with ease or at all). The
>>>>>> customer retaliates.
>>>>>
>>>>> Great Linux advocacy there...
>>>>
>>>> Micoshaft corporation shills have problems understanding Linux
>>>> advocacy?
>>>>
>>>
>>> If you're claiming this is Linux advocacy, then yes, I'm having
>>> trouble
>>> understanding how you could consider this to be Linux advocacy.
>>>
>>> Don't get me wrong: It's interesting stuff. I don't know about the
>>> others, but I enjoy reading about MPAA and their stance of piracy and
>>> DRM,
>>> etc., but I wouldn't call it "Linux advocacy".
>>>
>>
>>
>> Its a trick.
>> Windopes use piracy to eliminate DRM.
>> Linux doesn't.
>> Linux advocacy to the core I would say.
>>
>
> Linux is about freedom, as you say. DRM is about restricting freedom.
> These conversations are very closely linked indeed.
So may I flood the newsgroup with [News] postings about the relations
between North Korea and South Korea? The general election in Ecuador? Shinzo
Abe proposed Japanese educational reforms? These are about freedom as well.
- Oliver
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