Re:W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns
by MBCook on Monday September 18, 2017 @08:23PM
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Honestly I’m not sure it’s possible to make DRM illegal. On what grounds with that be constitutional? Artists have had rights to control how their work is performed in the US forever. How is this any different? Why would one form get protection and not the other?
I mean legally I don’t know if this counts as a free speech argument or not I just don’t see how such a long would end up passing muster.
Re:W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns
by felipelemos on Monday September 18, 2017 @05:17PM
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This the only possible way to win on the long run.
Re:W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns
by MBCook on Monday September 18, 2017 @08:23PM
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Would an anti-DRM law actually be constitutional?
Re:W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns
by felipelemos on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @05:26AM
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What part of the US Constitution would make it illegal?
Companies should not have this kind of power. Internet is a basic need now, it's where we (as a race) create and share knowledge.
If it is immoral to put restrictions on book consumptions, why should be moral to put restrictions on media consumption?
And I'm not referring to access. You can buy a book on a store, and after that that book is yours you can lend to anyone else, and everyone can read the same pages on this same physical book.
It the right to use the information after that you paid for it.
Re:W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns
by emodendroket on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @03:45AM
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Yes, why not? Believe it or not it's not an issue Madison ever weighed in on.
Well, a broad-based pressure group making them think they'd lose office if they didn't support such a thing is the only way anything like that ever gets passed. A lot of folks in Congress didn't want to see JASTA passed but felt they had no choice but to vote for it, so there's a model.
But yeah, this conversation, talking about how maybe if we ask Google nicely they'll act against their financial interests, strikes me as pretty naive.