[Gllug] Re: Anti-DRM event in Central London tomorrow!

[David Damerell]

On Saturday, 30 Sep 2006, Leo Hickey wrote:
>Is it? Well I just watched it and from that speech alone I don't see why 
>DRM is such a bad thing. He gives a handful of examples. One of which is 
>some guy who made a film for $200 and then was given a bill for $400 000 
>for the licensing of the music he used in the film. Why shouldn't this 
>guy have to pay for the music he used?

Why _should_ he?

Copyright's not some sort of fundamental right; it's a pure creation
of society, intended to provide a greater benefit to us by providing
an incentive for the creation of works than it provides a penalty by
weakening the public domain.

So where's the benefit to us in rendering that sort of project
impossible, exactly?

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