Evil = bad = counter to our goals. One of our goals is to have general-purpose computers widely available. A DRM layer between us and the hardware is counter to that goal, ergo, undesirable from this perspective.
Its like a governor in a car. Do you want one in yours? Are you willing to pay for the decreased driving flexibility and decreased reliability (extra parts, after all) of your car?
Sure, I might put a governor in my car if it would lower my insurance rates. And I might use a DRM system if it let me download music and video that I wanted, while remaining compliant with the creators' wishes.
What makes you think you can require one in mine?
We're talking about voluntary systems here. Ryan said that DRM was evil even if voluntary.
On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Nomen Nescio wrote:
We're talking about voluntary systems here. Ryan said that DRM was evil even if voluntary.
It is evil because the naive user doesn't see all the ramifications, in regards to longterm abuse, and he's not exactly being told. Plus, the naive users are being used as attack platforms against nonnaive users as far as interoperability is concerned. This is evil, and some pretty strongly worded high profiled debunking is needed.
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