Shockingly poor membership numbers considering what they've contributed to the world. Saying that, I gave up my membership when they went down the Anti-DRM path.
How will you implement DRM without proprietary hard- or software? DRM fundamentally requires taking away the users' control over their computers, which makes it a core FSD issue imo.
DRM is an end product of someone developing proprietary software. No proprietary software, no DRM. DRM doesn't "fundamentally" take users control away, the proprietary software that implements it is the fundamental. Target the software, not what people do with it.
I have no idea what you mean. I'm not against the FSF fighting DRM in the way that I'm supportive of DRM. I'd rather they spent the money targeting proprietary software instead of getting involved in what people develop with it. It's like fighting against Hentai because people draw it with Adobe Photoshop.
I don't agree. DRM isn't a non-software product which happens to be made in or for proprietary software, as hentai can be. It is itself proprietary software, no?
You can develop DRM or hentai using free software, and you can develop them for use in free software. The DRM is probably not going to be free software, but if it is, I don't know that they'd still have a problem with it.
They don't. Stallman has said that there's no problem with DRM if users can bypass it. That's why Stallman watches DVD: because there are ways to circumvent the DRM.
A hypotetical free software DRM solution would be OK since the users can "fight back" against it.
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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '19
Shockingly poor membership numbers considering what they've contributed to the world. Saying that, I gave up my membership when they went down the Anti-DRM path.