Tictman
February 11th, 2007, 06:58 PM
I have to ask this question. Where does ubuntu stand on the subject of digital rights management? I know this is a sticky issue, but with winblows going crazy with it in their new we are going to control everything on your machine os. It seems that they are trying to force this on all hardware manufacturers. Now I could care less about riping movies to my hard drive nor do I care about copying them, or for that matter watching them on my computer. I watch a movie once and that's enough for me. I do however have some friends who travel a lot business wise, and they will take along dvds to watch on their laptops. To me that makes sense.
What I'm opposed to is being told that I have to have a more and more bloated os, just because eventually all hardware is going to have to comply. I run Linux because I want a clean, stable, and reliable system, both in my office, and at home. I sounds like M$ is forcing this on the world. Funny thing is they can't even get it to work right themselves. The problem is most sheep, or ah people will just go out and buy V$ either on a new machine or, install it on an existing machine because they are told that they need it.
Lets face it if someone really wants to copy a dvd they will find a way to do it. Why should the Linux community bow down to M-cash.
If anyone is familiar with Steve Gibsons website, or Leo Laport, from the defunct Screen Savers show. They've been discussing it on Steve's site the audio is here.
http://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm
I also saw an article on the Open Hardware Foundation in issue 66 of Linux User, Developer mag. Now this would be a solution, but, and it's a big but. It seems that the way it's working out is that anyone can be suied for simply allowing anything to be copied using their hardware. Anyway that's the way it sounds to me.
Check out the link above and listen to the audio concerning DRM. Believe me it's pretty scary sounding.
What I'm opposed to is being told that I have to have a more and more bloated os, just because eventually all hardware is going to have to comply. I run Linux because I want a clean, stable, and reliable system, both in my office, and at home. I sounds like M$ is forcing this on the world. Funny thing is they can't even get it to work right themselves. The problem is most sheep, or ah people will just go out and buy V$ either on a new machine or, install it on an existing machine because they are told that they need it.
Lets face it if someone really wants to copy a dvd they will find a way to do it. Why should the Linux community bow down to M-cash.
If anyone is familiar with Steve Gibsons website, or Leo Laport, from the defunct Screen Savers show. They've been discussing it on Steve's site the audio is here.
http://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm
I also saw an article on the Open Hardware Foundation in issue 66 of Linux User, Developer mag. Now this would be a solution, but, and it's a big but. It seems that the way it's working out is that anyone can be suied for simply allowing anything to be copied using their hardware. Anyway that's the way it sounds to me.
Check out the link above and listen to the audio concerning DRM. Believe me it's pretty scary sounding.