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Re: More Mozilla Bendovers - This Time, It's The Hollywood Mafia

From Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
Newsgroups alt.fan.mozilla, gnu.misc.discuss, misc.int-property, comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject Re: More Mozilla Bendovers - This Time, It's The Hollywood Mafia
Date 2014-05-16 07:33 -0400
Organization None
Message-ID <ll4t2e$5ad$2@dont-email.me> (permalink)
References <ll1bmb$gll$1@dont-email.me> <ll2dl9$9a6$3@dont-email.me> <ll3440$lps$3@dont-email.me> <CF9AAF02.3763E%usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> <ll4dec$ipt$9@dont-email.me>

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bleak_fire_ wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

> on the great fire of Thu, 15 May 2014 17:50:58 -0700, Snit leapt from the
> flames and sang:
>
>> On 5/15/14, 12:21 PM, in article ll3440$lps$3@dont-email.me,
>> "bleak_fire_"
>> <penachew@yomomma.hot.invalid> wrote:
>> 
>>>> In one way it's a good thing because it ensures that people who refuse
>>>> to install Flash won't be left out of the pack when it comes to
>>>> purchasing digital content. On the other hand, it's also awful because
>>>> it legitimizes the idea of pushing digital rights management down the
>>>> consumers' throats. I have to admit that DRM has been nothing more
>>>> than a nightmare for me and I try to avoid it at all costs.
>>> 
>>> DRM is always proprietary. If it were open you would voluntarily follow
>>> it.
>> 
>> There are open source DRM solutions.
>
> That's classic Orwellian absurdity right there. Just because the label 
> says "W3C" instead of "Flash" does not make a locked box "open".

The implementation being open doesn't mean the box cannot be closed.

Just as visible source code doesn't make a program insecure.
Just as visible source code doesn't make encryption easier to break.

-- 
Alas, how love can trifle with itself!
		-- William Shakespeare, "The Two Gentlemen of Verona"

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More Mozilla Bendovers - This Time, It's The Hollywood Mafia bleak_fire_ <penachew@yomomma.hot.invalid> - 2014-05-15 03:18 +0000
  Re: More Mozilla Bendovers - This Time, It's The Hollywood Mafia Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-05-14 20:28 -0700
    Re: More Mozilla Bendovers - This Time, It's The Hollywood Mafia bleak_fire_ <penachew@yomomma.hot.invalid> - 2014-05-15 03:45 +0000
      Re: More Mozilla Bendovers - This Time, It's The Hollywood Mafia Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-05-14 20:54 -0700
        Re: More Mozilla Bendovers - This Time, It's The Hollywood Mafia bleak_fire_ <penachew@yomomma.hot.invalid> - 2014-05-15 04:34 +0000
          Re: More Mozilla Bendovers - This Time, It's The Hollywood Mafia Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-05-14 21:41 -0700
            Re: More Mozilla Bendovers - This Time, It's The Hollywood Mafia bleak_fire_ <penachew@yomomma.hot.invalid> - 2014-05-15 04:46 +0000
              Re: More Mozilla Bendovers - This Time, It's The Hollywood Mafia Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-05-15 02:05 -0700
                Re: More Mozilla Bendovers - This Time, It's The Hollywood Mafia bleak_fire_ <penachew@yomomma.hot.invalid> - 2014-05-15 19:19 +0000
                Re: More Mozilla Bendovers - This Time, It's The Hollywood Mafia Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-05-15 17:10 -0700
                Re: More Mozilla Bendovers - This Time, It's The Hollywood Mafia bleak_fire_ <penachew@yomomma.hot.invalid> - 2014-05-16 00:34 +0000
                Re: More Mozilla Bendovers - This Time, It's The Hollywood Mafia Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-05-15 17:43 -0700
                Re: More Mozilla Bendovers - This Time, It's The Hollywood Mafia bleak_fire_ <penachew@yomomma.hot.invalid> - 2014-05-16 07:04 +0000
                Re: More Mozilla Bendovers - This Time, It's The Hollywood Mafia chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2014-05-16 07:07 -0500
                Re: More Mozilla Bendovers - This Time, It's The Hollywood Mafia Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-05-16 07:38 -0700
                Re: More Mozilla Bendovers - This Time, It's The Hollywood Mafia Silver Slimer <ndr@slvrlps.c> - 2014-05-16 13:09 -0400
                Re: More Mozilla Bendovers - This Time, It's The Hollywood Mafia Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-05-16 17:51 -0700
                Re: More Mozilla Bendovers - This Time, It's The Hollywood Mafia Steve Carroll <fretwizzen@gmail.com> - 2014-05-18 19:03 -0700
                Re: More Mozilla Bendovers - This Time, It's The Hollywood Mafia Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-05-16 07:32 -0700
                Re: More Mozilla Bendovers - This Time, It's The Hollywood Mafia Hadron<hadronquark@gmail.com> - 2014-05-16 17:05 +0200
                Re: More Mozilla Bendovers - This Time, It's The Hollywood Mafia Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-05-16 08:14 -0700
                Re: More Mozilla Bendovers - This Time, It's The Hollywood Mafia Silver Slimer <ndr@slvrlps.c> - 2014-05-15 20:57 -0400
  Re: More Mozilla Bendovers - This Time, It's The Hollywood Mafia Hadron<hadronquark@gmail.com> - 2014-05-15 08:26 +0200
    Re: More Mozilla Bendovers - This Time, It's The Hollywood Mafia bleak_fire_ <penachew@yomomma.hot.invalid> - 2014-05-15 06:40 +0000
      Re: More Mozilla Bendovers - This Time, It's The Hollywood Mafia Hadron<hadronquark@gmail.com> - 2014-05-15 08:47 +0200
        Re: More Mozilla Bendovers - This Time, It's The Hollywood Mafia bleak_fire_ <penachew@yomomma.hot.invalid> - 2014-05-15 07:54 +0000
          Re: More Mozilla Bendovers - This Time, It's The Hollywood Mafia Hadron<hadronquark@gmail.com> - 2014-05-15 10:02 +0200
            Re: More Mozilla Bendovers - This Time, It's The Hollywood Mafia Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2014-05-15 10:35 +0200
              Re: More Mozilla Bendovers - This Time, It's The Hollywood Mafia chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2014-05-15 07:03 -0500
          Re: More Mozilla Bendovers - This Time, It's The Hollywood Mafia Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2014-05-15 05:57 -0400
      Re: More Mozilla Bendovers - This Time, It's The Hollywood Mafia Silver Slimer <ndr@slvrlps.c> - 2014-05-15 09:06 -0400
  Re: More Mozilla Bendovers - This Time, It's The Hollywood Mafia Silver Slimer <ndr@slvrlps.c> - 2014-05-15 08:58 -0400
    Re: More Mozilla Bendovers - This Time, It's The Hollywood Mafia bleak_fire_ <penachew@yomomma.hot.invalid> - 2014-05-15 19:21 +0000
      Re: More Mozilla Bendovers - This Time, It's The Hollywood Mafia Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-05-15 17:50 -0700
        Re: More Mozilla Bendovers - This Time, It's The Hollywood Mafia bleak_fire_ <penachew@yomomma.hot.invalid> - 2014-05-16 07:06 +0000
          Re: More Mozilla Bendovers - This Time, It's The Hollywood Mafia Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2014-05-16 07:33 -0400
            Re: More Mozilla Bendovers - This Time, It's The Hollywood Mafia GreyCloud <mist@cumulus.com> - 2014-05-16 11:09 -0600
          Re: More Mozilla Bendovers - This Time, It's The Hollywood Mafia Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-05-16 07:33 -0700
    Re: More Mozilla Bendovers - This Time, It's The Hollywood Mafia Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-05-15 17:20 -0700
  Re: More Mozilla Bendovers - This Time, It's The Hollywood Mafia bleak_fire_ <penachew@yomomma.hot.invalid> - 2014-05-15 21:04 +0000

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