DRM More Important Than Life or Security?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday March 21, 2006 @11:27PM from the but-at-least-our-music-will-be-safe dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Ed Felten of Freedom to Tinker has an interesting writeup regarding how copyright holders are still having serious objections to the built in exceptions of the DMCA even when it might threaten lives or national security. From the article: 'One would have thought they'd make awfully sure that a DRM measure didn't threaten critical infrastructure or endanger lives, before they deployed that measure. But apparently they want to keep open the option of deploying DRM even when there are severe doubts about whether it threatens critical infrastructure and potentially endangers lives.'"

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Suicide Seeds and penalties against US markets by Anonymous Coward · 2006-03-22 01:23 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Suspension of IP is the only way other nations can keep the US in check (you're doing something real nasty now called "suicide seeds" (google will take you to a greenpeace page) which will place the worlds food supplies in serious jeopardy---there needs to be a worldwide ban).

To pressure the US, through discussion I'd open up 1/1000 from Disney to Pharma of US ownership into public domain and double it every year until the US complies.