<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 7:23 AM, Norbert Bollow <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nb@bollow.ch" target="_blank">nb@bollow.ch</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid">In the absence of DRM, it is at least possible for say me to buy it<br>
on behalf of someone who lives in a country where it is dangerous<br>
to be known to possess the (electronic or physical) asset.<br></blockquote><div> </div><div>Agreed, this is possible - however unlikely - but possible. It's equally possible to purchase offline and hand it to the person, and as with any online utility there are 'brokers' who will download it for you - they exist everywhere, and the risk is theirs to bear. However yes with DRM it may or may not be possible to use the product by the intended device - so OK, that's there. How many people would want to do this with today's electronic surveillance is a different matter, but yes it's possible to make a purchase and then 'share' it (which would be so wrong even under current "<em>not for broadcast or distribution</em>" copyright thingies, again that's a different argument I don't want to get into here). </div>
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That is not the point that I was trying to make. I was talking about<br>
the usefulness of Free Software operating system platforms<br>
deteriorating when content (that is typically accessed by means of<br>
general purpose PCs) can be accessed on all general purpose PCs except<br>
for those where a Free Software operating system platform is used.<br></blockquote><div> </div><div>This looks like a 1% probability case. It's very unlikely or even impossible that something so vital to the movie-watching (say) of the general populous would not be developed or at least 'ripped' and applied to a linux system... It's far more likely that this will be out on a linux box even before DRM's fate is decided. But yes in surety terms this does pose a risk, you're right. </div>
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Now some people would think that when the choice is between the profits<br>
of the “copyright industry” (Hollywood and others with similar business<br>
models) being diminished and the viability of Free Software operating<br>
systems for general purpose PCs being destroyed, the “copyright<br>
industry” profits are more important. I disagree with them.</blockquote></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br>Ok now this I totally don't get - it makes FSO users look like software pirates. I would tend to disagree with <em>both</em> sides in this argument :)</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"> </div><div class="gmail_extra">-C<br></div></div>