Re:Mozilla bug 923590: Pledge never to implement HTML5 DRM
by rquantz on Friday October 04, 2013 @08:17AM
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It is already illegal to access certain websites. It's just that those websites are generally considered morally abhorrent. I'm not necessarily arguing against your point, except to say that slippery slopes are generally more complicated than the people warning against them think they are.
Re:Mozilla bug 923590: Pledge never to implement HTML5 DRM
by pessimizer on Friday October 04, 2013 @01:46PM
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If you're referring to "the children," I can't recall a case when someone asserting that we were starting down a slippery slope after some child-protection legislation had been passed has been wrong.
All of these national level DNS website blocks were sold as kiddie porn blocking.
Re:Mozilla bug 923590: Pledge never to implement HTML5 DRM
by jdjb on Friday October 04, 2013 @11:54AM
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"What is next, you are not allowed to run a certain program on your devices?"
That's what software licensing decides. I can have perfectly valid executable binaries on my computer but if I don't have a license to use them, then it's technically illegal to ./execute
Re:Mozilla bug 923590: Pledge never to implement HTML5 DRM
by antocv on Friday October 04, 2013 @12:15PM
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Thats is true. Im no angel but I do not have pirated and unlicensed software on my computers, thats one of the reasons I only use Linux and pay for IntelliJ. At least with software we have an option.
I was saying that more in the context of oppressive regimes, sorry I mean safe democratic governments, that some programs are illegal to write.
Lets not forget that people were seriously wondering if "jail-breaking" their iPhones is illegal or not. Thats how far it has gone. Its a disgrace to anything that a democratic liberal society is.
What is next, you are not allowed to run a certain program on your devices? Then it will be illegal to access certain web-sites with your devices. Then perhaps it will be illegal to have read a text on a print-out. Watch out, citizen, what you are writing is illegal, you are not allowed to do that!
Remember Eben Moglens talk on the war against general purpose computing.