Anti-DRM efforts in Boston and Cambridge

[cjb at mrao.cam.ac.uk (Chris Ball)]

>> On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Robert La Ferla <robertlaferla at comcast.net> said:

   > I think there needs to be a tradeoff here between consumer and
   > manufacturer needs and when I see a reasonable compromise by a
   > manufacturer, I don't see the rationale in protesting it.

A business model that depends on it being impossible to copy bits inside
a computer is not "reasonable", and should proceed with all haste to
the part of history that gets laughed at derisively.  As the man Lessig
says:

   * Creativity and innovation always builds on the past.
   * The past always tries to control the creativity that builds upon it.
   * Free societies enable the future by limiting this power of the past.
   * Ours is less and less a free society.
 -- http://www.lessig.org/freeculture/free.html

- Chris.
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