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The Customer is Always Wrong
McSpew writes "Hackers author Steven Levy so far is the only person in the mainstream press to pick up on the the travesty of the SSSCA hearings. He points out that only the media giants could be so stupid as to think treating their customers like criminals will increase sales." Steven's a very smart guy - and very well said on this issue.
And the scary bit is that for the most part, they're right...
So what? Let them make PC's. The *consumers* don't *have* to purchase the PC's. And I'm sure that someone, somewhere, will buy one just to hack it and summarily post a patch to every known OS to bypass the copy protection.
Not that I advocate piracy, but the MPAA/RIAA are zealots who want things before they realize what will *actually* happen when they get them. Sue Napster! Okay, Napster dead - 500 other P2P programs pop up overnight. Yeah, that worked.
Plus, they don't have control over the hundreds of millions of PC's that already exist. Let them eat cake. We can get along just fine without them...or we can ignore them after the fact.
GIR: I'm going to sing the Doom song now. Doom doom doom doom doom doom de-doom doom doom doom doom doom doom...
The SSSCA requires every digital device to have copy protection measures in it, referred to as Digital Rights Management. Guess who now holds a patent on a Digital Rights Management Operating System? Microsoft.
You miss the point.
Opensource can not be in compliance by default you see if there is DRM code in the linux kernel I can just remove them and recompile.
Therefore any thing that gives you full control over you computer is not in compliance.
I know I'm going to hell, I'm just trying to get good seats.