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

[Leo Hickey]

I haven't thought too much about the subject before, but I am persuaded 
by the anti-DRM argument. I disagree that the Lessig presentation that 
you pointed to is a good introduction to the argument. The examples he 
gives are really more about licensing issues than consequences of DRM 
technology (and those slide sequences with one word on each slide are 
extremely annoying). Frankly, if they made remixing manga cartoons 
punishable by life imprisonment I really wouldn't care. The whole thing 
about companies abusing DRM for anti-competitive practices and being 
unable to play your content on future devices is way, way more 
convincing an argument IMO, but Lessig does not address this in this 
presentation.


> What about the effect DRM could have on Free Software? Are you as
> likely to accept DRM if it means that Firefox on Windows won't run? 

Again, this is a much more solid argument, and frankly I don't see the 
counter argument, so if anyone can tell me why MS should be allowed to 
use DRM for this kind of thing I would be interested.
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