Re: Summary: [Fsfe-uk] TV show about copyright, the Internet and DRM

[MJ Ray]

Jason Clifford <address@hidden>
> On Fri, 5 May 2006, MJ Ray wrote:
> > coverage, even in the tabloid newspapers, technological protection
> > measures (TPM, or MTP in French) seems to be used a lot. [...]
> 
> Why continue to us the word "protection". By doing so you are granting the 
> central plank of their case to those who want more restrictive copyright 
> powers.

I don't see protectionism as a good thing and I doubt many do.
Surely no WIPO-fearing government can support protectionist laws?
So, I'm quite happy to label these bad things as protection.

> Surely the real description for DRM is "Restriction" Perhaps a better term 
> would be Technical Restriction Measures. This more properly describes the 
> fact that these measures seek to restrict the rights of consumers and 
> others to the goods they have bought.

Rights, consumers, goods, bought... all controversies, depending
what you're applying them to.  Debates I don't want to have now.

Personally, I see this as about control of our electronic devices.
I'd prefer to call it what it is and name it "copy-control"
but each time I do that, I seem to get shot down in flames (most
recently during the APIG response discussions IIRC).

Hope that explains,
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