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Stallman rails against digital-restrictions management
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by NotPhil | October 21, 2007 at 10:38 am
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Amidst hisses and applause, political activist Richard Stallman ... discussed what he terms the “conspiracy” of companies against the consumer Wednesday night. Stallman, the widely-recognized founder of the free software movement, argued ... that companies should not be allowed to use digital restrictions management to limit the rights of software users. ...
In order to prevent DRM, he said the government needs to abolish the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which he said promotes technology control and censorship. But doing so will be difficult, Stallman said.
“The U.S. government is usually the pet of the large corporations,” he said to scattered hisses.
In his speech for the negative, Tory Party member Harry Greene ’08 said property rights for digital devices are necessary and that DRM programs are the only buffer against media piracy. He questioned whether removing DRM would encourage innovative productivity. ...
Before the debate began, four student pranksters dressed in ninja garb jumped in front of Stallman as he prepared to take the stage. After posing for pictures with him, they ran out of the room amid audience laughter. The prank was inspired by an XKCD.com comic depicting a failed assassination attempt on Stallman by four masked men from Microsoft.
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at 07:52 on December 16th, 2007
i found his GCC (a software he wrote) difficult to use. take the commercial version from BORLAND, which is now given away as a gift, and "students" (or script kiddies) can create executeable program (from the included examples) within minutes.
the GCC (linux distro) "makeworks" are sort of "loveless"- no real introduction, no help system, no examples.
without "initiation" (i am slightly sorry but it must be said), you can not really use LINUX, or even write programs for it. OK if i really wanted to, it is possible to use the GCC- but i did not want to force it.
my introduction was BASIC (a MICROSOFT makework), and i do not regret it.
i wonder to see R. STALLMAN around on the net! he is not really my enemy, but also i would not say "hi friend, what's up". he is sort of curiosity from a time two decades ago...
always remember the GPL he wrote "Joe Hacker, Tycoon, Yoyodyne 1989".
he missed to explain the further whereabouts of "Yoyodyne". No, people want to know such things...
call me "EX-linux user" (but not a hacker). OK i must say, that when i want to see a new movie, i got to a shop, and buy a DVD. even if they are full-price sometimes.
it does not bother me if they are copy-protected! measures are: to take still screenshot, or to capture off a short sequence using a digital camera, if need be. i do not understand the worry about DRM. you can always sample off on the analog channel!