[wos] End of resistance against DRM?

[Aaron Kaplan]

On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 19:22 +0200, tt at cut3.com wrote:
> law favours drm. an argumentation flowing only existing law is maybe
> not the
> best strategy. not obeying copyright law is a mass sport. lessig is
> wrong in
> judging that “DRM has become ubiquitous”. right now it has nearly no
> impact
> on many peoples live. so i think it’s a good idea to boost resistance
> and
> disobeying practices as long as this is possible. the time to talk
> about
> “nice” drm has yet to come.  

yeah. Actually I like DRM. It has the potential to lock out any
commercial or non free software from any correctly programmed open
source PC. Let's just go this (the OTHER) way :)
First step is to convince the HW vendors that they need to
cryptographically sign and be cross signed by the linux kernel.
Then they are allowed to officially write "supports the linux kernel" on
their boxes. Etc etc jadajada.. you got the idea i hope :)

Unfortunately as the linux kernel can be programmed by many people
there will be a specific if statement bug:

if (!allowed_to_play(this->mp3handle)) {
	return -1;
}

bugs happen, and so - alas! the "!" was forgotten, effectively shutting
out all legal music and _only_ allowing pirated stuff.




(ok, to be explicit/for the google record: this post was a bit sarcastic
of course)