[governance] [Wsis-pct] IP Justice Comment to IGF on Top Policy Issues for Athens

[Taran Rampersad]

Isn't the problem then with the German Law rather than the document?

I think it's dangerous to dismiss DRM the concept. The implementations 
are where I have problems. It's much like the patent system, which 
extends way beyond software... the patent system doesn't really do what 
the concept of patents is supposed to do in the first place, and while 
hacking around it in GPLv3 draft might be effective in the short term, 
it's only attacking the symptom. So is attacking DRM in this manner, 
though I am subject to change my opinion. over the next few days (and 
subsequently, the rest of my life).

DRM could have valid implementations - for example, to assure that the 
rights of Free Software are maintained. Rights are rights, but licenses 
vary - and so do implementations of objects.

Richard Stallman wrote:
> I would support any of these specific recommendations in another
> context.  But this document takes a point of view that accepts DRM,
> per se, as legitimate.  It opposes the prohibition of P2P software,
> but doesn't call for the legalization of P2P sharing; it says nothing
> to oppose laws such as the new German law, which would imprison all
> people for sharing movies.
>
> For that reason, I have to urge people not to endorse the document.
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