Ubuntu/FLOSS at CopyCamp.ca

[Michael Lacey]

What I meant, is these formats are the ones most targeted by the industry
and used to lock their content. I believe open sourced file formats are an
alternative that artists should be looking into.

I completely agree with the idea of owners choosing whether to impose locks
on their content rather than the manufacturers. It is disgusting to purchase
a CD and not be able to play it in your own computer. Or a computer game?
The companies sell them with CD checks and other forms of "security" that
require the CD to be present in the machine at all times, even if the entire
piece of software is copied over to the computer. The consumer is NOT
allowed to make a backup copy of his/her software without circumventing the
copy protection, nor play the game in the event the CD is lost.

There will always be people who have the skills required and want to
circumvent these technologies, it's human nature. All that is being done is
cause aggravation for the regular home user.

This is a very good argument, and I will be more than happy to sign your
petition. It'd also be a good topic to discuss at the Linuxcaffe on
Saturday, but I would like the main focus to be distributing and raising
awareness of Ubuntu and OSS.


On 9/4/06, Russell McOrmond <russell at flora.ca> wrote:
>
>
> Note: You said "no DRM as opposed to the infested MP3/WMV/MOV/AAC etc
> files", but this doesn't make sense to me.  While some of these file
> formats have cryptographic extensions to allow them to be digitally
> locked in a standard way, none of them are themselves "DRM".  What makes
> something into DRM is the tie between the locked files and access
> devices which have the decryption keys, where these access devices obey
> the instructions of the manufacturers and treat the owners as an
> attacker of what they own.
>
>    Having files be able to be encrypted is not a bad thing.  Most of us
> thing GPG/PGP,SSL, OpenS/WAN and other software is critical to computer
> security.  It is having the manufacturer rather than the owner retaining
> the (digital) keys that is the problem.
>
>    If it were only legal for the owner of something to authorize a
> (digital or otherwise) lock to be added to what they own, then the "DRM"
> problem would cease to exist.  This is why it is critically important
> that as many people as possible sign our petitions and write letters to
> their Canadian MPs.  MPs need to realize the property rights issues at
> the heart of current debates, and don't allow for state-sponsored theft.
>
>
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