Re: Design principles and ethics

[Michal Suchanek]

On 5/3/06, Pierre THIERRY <address@hidden> wrote:
> Scribit Bas Wijnen dies 03/05/2006 hora 19:50:
> > > And do you know what the side-effects are?
> > No. I suppose the rich were getting richer on the expense of the poor?
>
> An author could only hope being paid when ordered a work. The only real
> way to earn a living as an author was to be under the protection of a
> patron.
>
> Which leads to self-censorship, because an author cannot affort to write
> something his patron would not agree with.
>
> This was even the introduction argument of our minister of culture when
> advocating the DAVDSI law at the parliament (DAVDSI is the transposition
> in national law of EUCD, which is the european version of DMCA). It was
> somewhat followed by the argument that only DRM could save copyright...

DMCA in Europe ?!

Isn't DMCA the law saying that you cannot copy anything that is
copy-protected, even if you had the right to copy it otherwise (ie if
there was no copy protection)?

Indeed DRM activists would make this rule unbreakable. They seek to
establish copy protection that cannot be ever circumvented.

Thanks

Michal