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Re:Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software by aaronbrethorst on Saturday June 13, 2015 @12:25PM (#9711482)

    This malicious feature is known as
    Digital Restrictions Management (DRM)
Making up a new name for DRM, regardless of what you think of it, sounds childish and silly.
Re:Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software by belorn on Saturday June 13, 2015 @12:56PM (#9711626)
In Swedish copyright, we have a copy tax which grants me the right to make private copies. If DRM is about rights, we should then see all rights associated with copyright to be managed by it.

But in practice DRM only restricts access to copyrighted works, including overriding rights which the state has granted me. If it managed rights, it does so faulty. If it manage restrictions, it does so correctly. The name then either reflect programmers that create faulty systems, or it is a incorrect name made in order to market something as better than it is.

Re:Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software by madez on Saturday June 13, 2015 @01:07PM (#9711669)
In Germany you also have the right to copy copyrighted works for private use, say, to give a copy to your parents, your brother or your best friend. You are even allowed to study and remove DRM if it stops you to do so. That is perfectly legal.

Not every country has those rules and that's okay, but it's outragous when other countries bully yours to adopt their copyright laws. Besides that they also spy on you.

Re:Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software by Karunamon on Saturday June 13, 2015 @02:13PM (#9711953)
Even when that name is more representative of what it actually accomplishes?

"Rights" is a misnomer. There are no "rights" being managed, it's all about restrictions. You don't add DRM to something to make it more open, you add DRM to make it more restricted.

The original name is some impressive marketing doublethink on the part of whoever coined the name, IMO.

Re:Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software by jholman on Saturday June 13, 2015 @04:53PM (#9712614)
I agree with you that the new name is more representative, and I am a fan of using the new name, and I disagree with aaronbrethorst's comment.

But you're just flat wrong that there are no rights being managed. The right that is being managed is the only right of copyright: the right of the "owner" of some "property" to restrict the copying done by other parties. (the scare-quotes are there because I dispute the idea that "IP" is actually property)

"Rights" always make things more restricted than their absence; they restrict what people can do. Any right you might consider does not in fact guarantee that the entitled party actually gets the thing they have a right to; it only makes it illegal for other people (or governments or non-natural persons) to violate those rights. Right to freedom of movement doesn't give you the ability to cross oceans nor walk through walls, it only makes it illegal for others to put walls deliberately in your path. Etc.

Re:Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software by codelizard42 on Saturday June 13, 2015 @12:32PM (#9711516)
Childish it may be, but rephrasing the term this way does better cover the majority of the actual use cases of the technology in the wild, IMHO
Re:Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software by madez on Saturday June 13, 2015 @01:04PM (#9711661)
I'd take a child fighting for freedom over a grown-up trying to exercise power over others any day of any week.
Re:Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software by alayne on Saturday June 13, 2015 @12:54PM (#9711614)
Re:Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software by hga on Saturday June 13, 2015 @12:59PM (#9711642)
Very funny, but I sure seem to remember BSD adopting 1KiB sized blocks before all that.
Re:Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software by GFK_of_xmaspast on Saturday June 13, 2015 @12:44PM (#9711572)
Didn't Stallman habitually refer to a certain disk operating system as 'MS-DOG'?
Re:Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software by eosrei on Saturday June 13, 2015 @01:36PM (#9711810)
It wouldn't be surprising if RMS said that and you got me to look it up. The source for "MS-DOG" seems to be Morten Welinder (http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/doc/msdog.html)
Re:Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software by icebraining on Saturday June 13, 2015 @01:35PM (#9711807)
Well, Emacs does (did?), but I don't know if that was rms' doing.
Re:Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software by quadrangle on Saturday June 13, 2015 @03:55PM (#9712386)
It's not childish and silly at all. DRM is Digital Restrictions Management. That's what it is. It isn't an institution or a program code or anything, it's literally just language summarized. It's not like USA, it's more like LOL and AFK. Adapting it to a more accurate meaning is perfectly fine.