linux-kernel - Re: Abolishing the DMCA (was GPL only modules)

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Message-ID: <20061215010619.7d49fa6e@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Fri, 15 Dec 2006 01:06:19 +0000
From:	Alan <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Michael ODonald <mcodonald@...oo.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...l.org, gregkh@...e.de
Subject: Re: Abolishing the DMCA (was GPL only modules)

> The best ways to get rich corporations on our side in fighting the
> DMCA is to use the DMCA to hurt their profits. Companies that rely on
> binary drivers would have several options:
> 
> 1) Lobby politicians to repeal the DMCA, 

They already are. The tech industry is mostly anti DMCA and there are
plenty of deeply proprietary companies who fought against the DMCA, are
fighting the US broadcast flag idiocy and so on. So you'd be fighting the
wrong people.

Alan
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