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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
So while you proclaim the alleged superiority of your radical pessimism, I look around and see a world where information flows more freely than at any time in human history (even with, or despite, the presence of DRM), and when almost anyone in a democratic society has a better education and access to more artworks and media than all but the wealthiest families as recently as 200 years ago. I.e. the trend now is towards more access and availability, not less.
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I see informations flow freely all over the world, and knowledge is more widespread than before; but still,
half of this happens illegally. I have to thank eMule, the various torrent sites and the Onion-Tor network for the terabytes of information that flow throught the internet every second.
A friend of mine said that
the way DRM is applied is just a way to apply old copyright schemes to a new way of sharing knowledge.
There's something I notice in this thread, and it is that everybody talks about USA copyright laws and DMCA. Still, that's just one country, and the world is much larger: DMCA here is toilet paper, copyright laws where I live are different, yet the main distribution channels do not care.
Why, when I buy something in digital form, do I have to deal with a DRM that suits only the US laws? As I said before, Italian courts declared that anyone can strip his/her files of any DRM if the purpose is to enjoy them in a different device; still, this is something that only someone with a certain degree of technological knowledge can do, not everyone; so, why do every distributor enforces something that reduces the rights that I have (I'm speaking only of Italy)?
In short: why do all those who distribute digital information consider only the laws of ONE country? By doing this, by enforcing a policy that is right for a country but not for the other, they dig and block what is a purchaser's right in another country.
That's the greatest mistake that I keep seeing: the internet is the same for everyone, but laws (and rights) are not. Either they make a
universal copyright act, or distributors should start considering different approaches to different markets, and I assure you they usually do not, or not completely.