[olug] Why I no longer care about Disney.

[David Walker]

With the software I am exposed to they don't even try.  Microsoft products, 
Adobe products.  They just provide a key that you have to write on your cd 
copy with magic marker to use that product.

I'm not really exposed to too many other products.  Now that I'm legal I stay 
almost exclusively with open licensed products.


On Thursday 06 June 2002 05:04 pm, William E. Kempf wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Walker" <linux_user at grax.com>
> To: <olug at olug.org>
> Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 3:37 PM
> Subject: Re: [olug] Why I no longer care about Disney.
>
> > Doesn't work:
> > The software industry has spent the last 20 years looking at copy
>
> protection
>
> > and they have come to the conclusion that it does not work.  Why should
>
> the
>
> > movie industry expect the software industry to suddenly make it work just
> > because it is legally mandated?
>
> <sarcasm>
> They've come to the conlclusion that it doesn't work?  Then why do they
> continue to try and employ copy protection?
> </sarcasm>
>
> I'm not disagreeing with you that copy protection doesn't work.  I'm just
> pointing out that despite this "knowledge" the industry is still employing
> copy protection schemes that do nothing more then annoy (at best) the
> legitimate owners of the software in the attempt to at least reduce the
> number of illegal copies made.  You shouldn't be surprised that the
> entertainmnet industries are following suit here, even if you should be
> annoyed by it.  Personally, I hope the amount of annoyance and the number
> of people annoyed are both increased enough by the new segment of users
> that purchase things like movie DVDs but won't touch a computer to actually
> get our legal system to realize that such efforts shouldn't be allowed
> under the law.  Legitimate use gaurantees under the law MUST NOT be
> undermined just because there are criminals who are quite willing to
> violate copyright laws.
>
> Bill Kempf
>
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