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7 <website_has_email@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Oliver Wong wrote:
>
>>
>> "7" <website_has_email@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:hhaZg.37041$r61.26997@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> 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".
>>
>> - Oliver
>
>
> 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.
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