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diff --git a/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/opposing-drm.html b/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/opposing-drm.html index 883c6a2..0309ee9 100644 --- a/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/opposing-drm.html +++ b/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/opposing-drm.html @@ -1,20 +1,21 @@ <!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" --> -<!-- Parent-Version: 1.84 --> +<!-- Parent-Version: 1.96 --> +<!-- This page is derived from /server/standards/boilerplate.html --> +<!--#set var="TAGS" value="essays cultural drm" --> +<!--#set var="DISABLE_TOP_ADDENDUM" value="yes" --> <title>Opposing Digital Rights Mismanagement - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title> <!--#include virtual="/philosophy/po/opposing-drm.translist" --> <!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" --> - +<!--#include virtual="/philosophy/ph-breadcrumb.html" --> +<!--GNUN: OUT-OF-DATE NOTICE--> +<!--#include virtual="/server/top-addendum.html" --> +<div class="article reduced-width"> <h2>Opposing Digital Rights Mismanagement<br /> <span style="font-size: .7em">(Or Digital Restrictions Management, as we now call it)</span></h2> -<p>by <a href="http://www.stallman.org/"><strong>Richard Stallman</strong></a> -</p> -<p><em>First published by BusinessWeek Online.</em></p> - -<blockquote class="announcement"><p> -<a href="http://defectivebydesign.org">Join our campaign against DRM</a>. -</p></blockquote> +<address class="byline">by <a href="https://www.stallman.org/">Richard +Stallman</a></address> <p>In 1989, in a very different world, I wrote the first version of the GNU General Public License, a license that gives computer users freedom. The @@ -41,6 +42,11 @@ increasingly powerful embedded computers, are being turned against us by their manufacturers before we buy them—they are designed to restrict what we can use them to do. </p> + +<div class="announcement comment" role="complementary"><p> +<a href="https://www.defectivebydesign.org">Join our campaign against DRM</a>. +</p></div> + <p> First, there was the TiVo. People may think of it as an appliance to record TV programs, but it contains a real computer running a GNU/Linux @@ -64,7 +70,7 @@ application program to “seal” data so that no other program can access it. If Disney distributes movies this way, you'll be unable to exercise your legal rights of fair use and de minimis use. If an application records your data this way, it will be the -ultimate in vendor lock-in. This too destroys freedom No. 1 — if +ultimate in vendor lock-in. This too destroys freedom No. 1; if modified versions of a program cannot access the same data, you can't really change the program to do what you wish. Something like Palladium is planned for a coming version of Windows. @@ -81,9 +87,9 @@ and you won't be able to remove it. This plan explicitly requires devices to be “robust”—meaning you cannot change them. Its implementors will surely want to include GPL-covered software, trampling freedom No. 1. This scheme should get -“AACSed,” and a boycott of HD DVD and Blu-ray has already -been announced -(<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20140217075603/http://bluraysucks.com/">http://bluraysucks.com/ [archived]</a>). +“AACSed,” and <a +href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140217075603/http://bluraysucks.com/"> +a boycott of HD DVD and Blu-ray has already been announced</a>. </p> <p> Allowing a few businesses to organize a scheme to deny our freedoms for @@ -127,9 +133,14 @@ itself, cannot justify denying the public control over its technology. Defending freedom means thwarting DRM. </p> +<div class="infobox extra" role="complementary"> +<p>First published by <cite>BusinessWeek Online</cite>.</p> +</div> +</div> + </div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above --> <!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" --> -<div id="footer"> +<div id="footer" role="contentinfo"> <div class="unprintable"> <p>Please send general FSF & GNU inquiries to @@ -147,13 +158,13 @@ to <a href="mailto:webmasters@gnu.org"><webmasters@gnu.org></a>.</p> to <a href="mailto:web-translators@gnu.org"> <web-translators@gnu.org></a>.</p> - <p>For information on coordinating and submitting translations of + <p>For information on coordinating and contributing translations of our web pages, see <a href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations README</a>. --> Please see the <a href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations -README</a> for information on coordinating and submitting translations +README</a> for information on coordinating and contributing translations of this article.</p> </div> @@ -174,7 +185,7 @@ of this article.</p> There is more detail about copyright years in the GNU Maintainers Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. --> -<p>Copyright © 2006, 2017 Richard M. Stallman</p> +<p>Copyright © 2006, 2021 Richard Stallman</p> <p>This page is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/">Creative @@ -184,10 +195,10 @@ Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License</a>.</p> <p class="unprintable">Updated: <!-- timestamp start --> -$Date: 2017/11/28 19:57:00 $ +$Date: 2021/09/19 16:26:24 $ <!-- timestamp end --> </p> </div> -</div> +</div><!-- for class="inner", starts in the banner include --> </body> </html> |