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Originally posted by CookieRevised
Fight for freedom? Freedom of speech? Standing up against big companies? Those are only (mostly) used by immature kiddies who think steeling is cool who have no clue at all.
If you want to do something against copy protections STOP COPYING STUFF IN THE FIRST PLACE.
A wise friend once told me that all the laws and rules passed will not stop idiots from existing. You can drop the speed limit to 10, stick traffic lights at every intersection, lower the legal BAC and raise the drinking age, but you will still get people driving like idiots on the road. I think a big part of having a sane government is knowing when more restrictions won't solve the problem.
It's for that reason that I'm glad they broke that AACS DRM. It doesn't bother me in a big way, if there's a decent movie out there it will be on SBS. But DRM needs to be broken publicly and completely, so people know: all the legislation and encryption in the world will not stop the pirate crackers. You've either got to have a secure design, which isn't possible with a portable format, or accept that if you sell a movie people are going to copy it, and then hunt them down and sue them.
Hoping that these idiots stop is a grand outlook, but it's just not going to happen. Unless you've got some sort of genie or something. DRM is not a genie.
was put impeccably into words at DebianDay for me last Saturday, by Knut Yrvin of Trolltech - adults try something once, fail, and then are like "ffs this doesn't work". Children try, fail, and then try again, and succeed - maybe on the second, or even fifth retry. But the thing is that they keep at it and overcome the problems in the end.
-andrewdodd13
