Comments on: Win for Harper? Return of Canadian DMCA http://www.p2pnet.net/story/17253 p2pnet.net - reader powered Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:02:45 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: John Mccain Owns SKYNET http://www.p2pnet.net/story/17253/comment-page-1#comment-830521 John Mccain Owns SKYNET Thu, 09 Oct 2008 02:32:26 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/17253#comment-830521 DRM is another step for SKYNET. SKYNET and big brother are coming for you. Harper,Bush and McCain are hiddenly making SKYNET.SKYNET must be stopped! DRM is another step for SKYNET.

SKYNET and big brother are coming for you.

Harper,Bush and McCain are hiddenly making SKYNET.SKYNET must be stopped!

]]> By: Silly Ratfaced Git http://www.p2pnet.net/story/17253/comment-page-1#comment-830495 Silly Ratfaced Git Thu, 09 Oct 2008 02:13:14 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/17253#comment-830495 Based on what little we've seen of ACTA, it appears that the acronym really expands to the Anti-Consumer Trade Act. If it really restricted itself to counterfeit goods I would probably have no problem with it. It seems to suffer from feature creep. DRM is a nonsensical technology. Jon's snake oil reference is very appropriate. The use of cryptography to prevent copying is pure nonsense. Alice can use cryptography to send a message to Bob. If Charlie intercepts and copies the message he can not read the message because he lacks the decryption key. Bob can read the message because he has the key. Now try to extend this to giving Bob the key so that he can watch the DVD movie but he can't make copies even though you gave him the key. Did your head explode? Any law enforcing DRM is a law based on snake oil. Shutup Johnny and take your MPAA patent medicine. Based on what little we’ve seen of ACTA, it appears that the acronym really expands to the Anti-Consumer Trade Act. If it really restricted itself to counterfeit goods I would probably have no problem with it. It seems to suffer from feature creep.

DRM is a nonsensical technology. Jon’s snake oil reference is very appropriate. The use of cryptography to prevent copying is pure nonsense.

Alice can use cryptography to send a message to Bob. If Charlie intercepts and copies the message he can not read the message because he lacks the decryption key. Bob can read the message because he has the key. Now try to extend this to giving Bob the key so that he can watch the DVD movie but he can’t make copies even though you gave him the key. Did your head explode?

Any law enforcing DRM is a law based on snake oil.

Shutup Johnny and take your MPAA patent medicine.

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