DRM Digital Rights Management

[mrfence]

Thanx for that post.

I would have to concur with the notion that excluding DRM would hurt Linux and relegate it's use to a smaller niche market. Even in light of symbolic choice of Brazil. Maybe I'm just cynical but 20 years ago it was known that the pc (IBM) would always dominate incestously. Even in J.C. we were taught that writing software for the largest market paid the best and they would stay the largest because you could do more with their machines with all the software available. The game was entrenched even before the internet was spawned. No new threshold here.

The only way DRM is going away is if everyone with content of value jumps up and says "I'm opening a free store! Steal this content!". Didn't work for Abbey Hoffman, aka Barry Freed. Probably ain't ever gonna happen on this planet.

Geez, I am cynical.


M.F.