Roy Schestowitz :
> NZ government defends DRM policy
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>| "DRM relies on its owners not knowing how it works and not being able
>| to change how it works. If I give you a song that can only be played on
>| five computers, it defeats the point if you can change that to 50,000
>| computers. But the point of open source is that it is better for
>| society, individuals, and competition if anyone who cares to can discover
>| how her tools work, improve those tools, and publish her improvements,"
>| Doctorow wrote.
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>| He argued that using DRM under the policy will force New Zealanders and
>| New Zealand businesses to license software to do business with government
>| and force open source developers to close their source code.
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> http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/NZ_government_defends_DRM_policy/0,130061733,339270909,00.htm
The basic gist being that if OSS reveals how DRM works, then the
ignorance that allows technologies like DRM to control the masses is
effectively destroyed. I hardly see that as a pressure for OSS
programmers to close their sources. I do see it as a pressure for those
who would control the masses (Music Industry, Hollywood, MS) to come up
with a technology that is comp[atible with the current atmosphere around
them. No one I know who understands DRM thinks its a good idea.
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