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  • From: Rob Myers <rob AT robmyers.org>
  • To: cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] Subject: Re: Version 3.0 - List Discussion Responses
  • Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 14:40:39 +0100

Mark Brown wrote:
I can't think of a license that attempts to do much beyond parallel
distribution that has actually become popular. Remember that free
software people are also often the sort of people who will do things
like encrypt the hard drives on their laptops for security purposes.

Encryption is not DRM.

As encryption, DRM is a bad joke. You give a third party both the encrypted data and the key to unencrypt it (see Cory Doctorow's Microsoft talk on this). But you also legally bind them not to break the key. It is this law that gives DRM its power, not encryption that hackers crack a few hours after each update.

- Rob.




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