on 'evil' as an abbreviation

Eugen Leitl eugen at leitl.org
Tue Jul 2 03:19:17 PDT 2002


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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