- From: Rigo Wenning <rigo@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 09:47:33 +0100
- To: Dr Mark R Baker <mark.baker@pay2see.com>
- Cc: www-drm@w3.org
On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 01:14:14PM -0500, Dr Mark R Baker wrote: > Or indeed give up commerce altogether! Many of the criticisms that apply to > DRM apply to trade in general - that material goods are fundamentally > stealable just as digital content if fundamentally copyable - I don't know > if you have seen the witty parody of Bruce Schneier's anti DRM article that > is circulating? Could you send a pointer to Schneier's article to the list? On the "stealable", I think, there is a fundamental difference. Stealing normal materialized goods takes away the possession and fruits of the thing to someone else. Copying digital content just produces another instance. It doesn't take away a piece from another human. The only thing it does is to not obey to some legal barrier of copying, invented to create a market. So copying outside the legal framework is just diminuishing the chances for the estimated benefit and NOT "stealing" at all. Being lawyers in a legal matter, we should be clear after all and we also should avoid the war-language of some marketing campaign. I'm very satisfied, that people on this list are still active. I think my thinking on DRM (and W3C's thinking on the matter) has not ended. Best, -- Rigo Wenning W3C/INRIA Policy Analyst Privacy Activity Lead mail:rigo@w3.org 2004, Routes des Lucioles http://www.w3.org/ F-06902 Sophia Antipolis
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