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DRM More Important Than Life or Security?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. Re:"Copyright holders" don't give a fuck ... by qeveren · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Actually, parasitism is a form of symbiosis. Symbiosis is just a blanket term for the group of intimiate interactions between species, harmful or beneficial.

    Mutualism is the case where both partners benefit from the relationship.

    And this is totally pedantic and I'm not even sure if we're still on topic. :)

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  2. Re:"Copyright holders" don't give a fuck ... by aschran · · Score: 0, Redundant

    A relationship where both organisms benefit is a symbiosis.

    Actually, this is also incorrect. Any intimate association between two organisms constitutes symbiosis, including both parasitism and mutualism (which is, I think, the word you were looking for). Check the Wikipedia article.

    The most succesfull parasites are those who stop being parasites and become symbiotes.
    This statement logically makes no sense.