Re: Part 2 of PDF, DRM, and "open" formats
- From: Bowerbird@[redacted]
- Subject: Re: Part 2 of PDF, DRM, and "open" formats
- Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 13:05:26 EDT
david rothman said:
> Yes, we could take a hardline stance against any kind of DRM,
> but if so, that will just make the works more and more remote
> from the world of the digitally oriented, especially the young.
david rothman can take any kind of "stance" he wants toward d.r.m.,
it doesn't matter, because brave souls will take the "wide open" stance
and make sure that nobody, including rothman, puts locks on books...
are you going to put all of us in prison?
then you'd better strengthen the locks on your prison-doors too.
because we'll be breaking those as well.
and let us not shrink from the truth. anyone who works with publishers
to convert electronic-books into cash-registers, no matter how "gentle"
those cash-registers might operate, is a heathen...
> Yet another issue, in terms of the use of e-books, is the library world.
> What do you do to address the issue of the check-out approach?
oh please. are you so entirely enmeshed in the mentality of scarcity
that you don't realize there's no reason to "return" a digital book,
and thus absolutely no reason to "check it out" in the first place?
cost-free copies is the _blessing_ that has been bestowed upon us.
and the capitalists keep looking for a way to disable that capability,
so as to continue to feed their greed. that is why they are doomed.
> Just please look beyond the issue of ideological purity on DRM matters
it would be very convenient for you if we'd "look beyond" our principles,
wouldn't it? unfortunately for you, though, we're not going to do that...
> Just please look beyond the issue of ideological purity on DRM matters
> and think "Books" and "Literature" and "Good of society."
we _are_ thinking of "the good of society".
500 years of history have taught us that
wide open books are good for society, and
that an educated populace is a good thing.
> Publishers just aren't going to abandon DRM right now,
> and we need to compromise.
who cares what they do? let them put locks on the books.
we will strip off those locks, and laugh at their stupidity in
thinking they could actually pull it off, while simultaneously
realizing how un-funny it is that they'd actually try to do it
-- let alone that they would fight us to the death to do it --
which tells us everything about how sick those bastards are,
and why we must put them down, along with their apologists.
so no, we do _not_ "need to compromise". we will prevail.
-bowerbird