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Re: [News] Binding Music to a Commercial Operating System

  • Subject: Re: [News] Binding Music to a Commercial Operating System
  • From: JEDIDIAH <jedi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 10:11:01 -0600
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Superfeed.net
  • References: <1444445.gLTkvvLJVo@schestowitz.com> <_LudnfNL_sjJgA7YnZ2dnUVZ_oTinZ2d@speakeasy.net>
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  • Xref: ellandroad.demon.co.uk comp.os.linux.advocacy:473778
On 2006-12-28, John A. Bailo <jabailo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> Free Music--Next Year?
>> | from SpiralFrog will have to log on to the site at least once a
>> | month to ensure that their downloaded tracks remain playable.
>
> Rhapsody has been doing that for years.
>  
>> The Top 10 Arguments Against DRM
>
> Those are all good arguments.   But here's the Top 1 Argument for DRM.
>
> Given that an unobstrusive DRM scheme can be perfected *technically* is
> there any logical or moral reason why you wouldn't want DRM?   Isn't fair

	All works must eventually go into the public domain.

	If it is not possible for a librarian or monk to archive your work and
preserve it for posterity then you have not lived up to your end of the social
contract implied by copyright.

	Enriching the PD is the price you pay for the opportunity to get rich.

> that, no matter what you think of the present system of ownership, that one
> who has created content should be allowed to have a system with which to
> track usage?

	Tracking usage of intellectual works is fundementally incompatable with
the idea of freedom of speech and privacy.

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