what moral obligation? (Re: DRM technology and policy)
Tim May
timcmay at got.net
Tue May 6 19:43:27 PDT 2003
On Tuesday, May 6, 2003, at 01:02 PM, Bill Stewart wrote:
> At 11:18 PM 05/05/2003 -0700, Steve Schear wrote:
>> At 10:48 PM 5/5/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>>> I believe that the Philips, who holds the trademark for compact
>>> disks, has
>>> said that copy protected disks do not follow the standard and may
>>> not use
>>> the trademark.
>>
>> If so, couldn't the labels selling be charged with deceptive
>> advertising?
>
> Only if the round pieces of plastic in decorative jewel box cases
> are labelled "CD-ROM" and/or use the "CD" logo.
> I've heard that some of the recent sellers of user-preventing round
> plastic
> have responded, correctly, to Philips's announcements about the issue
> by no longer labelling them as CDs.
>
> At that point, the implied assertion that the round plastic container
> for intellectual property packaging is a "CD" is no more deceptive
> than the implied assertion that it contains "music".
Given that a tax is already collected to make backups of music (the
1992 Home Recording Act levies a tax on blank media), if one were to
buy a CD at Tower Records and then not be able to make a copy, one
would expect:
-- a refund of taxes levied on blank media
or
-- a refund of the money paid for the alleged CD
(plus compensation for the time and mileage consumed)
Were Tower Records to refuse a full refund plus compensation, then of
course it would be moral to burn down their building.
Maybe after a few such burnings and 20 or 30 deaths of co-conspirators,
the practice will change.
--Tim May
>
>
--Tim May
"The great object is that every man be armed and everyone who is able
may have a gun." --Patrick Henry
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