Re: I strongly urge all supporters to reconsider the EME proposal. It is not in your best interests! from B. Ross Ashley on 2013-05-17 (public-restrictedmedia@w3.org from May 2013)

From: B. Ross Ashley <brashley46@tfnet.ca>
Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 11:05:24 -0400
To: public-restrictedmedia@w3.org
Message-ID: <51964734.30107@tfnet.ca>

On 13-05-17 06:47 AM, Hugo Roy wrote:
> The other problem is that with DRM, you are prevented from doing
> things which can actually be entirely lawful under your
> jurisdiction. To impose DRM on users can be a way to claim more
> power than you are legally entitled to, and thus is morally wrong.
Ah, surely. In Canada, still, I am legally entitled to make a copy of 
anything I have purchased as personal-use backup (I am not a lawyer and 
don't recall the exact wording.) Any attempt to impose US law, for 
example, on my use of copyrighted material in Canada is extralegal.

-- 
B. Ross Ashley
registered Linux user 548111

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