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Legalized file sharing, shorter protection times for the commercial copyright monopoly, free sampling and a ban on DRM. Sorry, I didn't read the document. Do

Legalized file sharing, shorter protection times for the commercial copyright monopoly, free sampling and a ban on DRM. Sorry, I didn't read the document. Do those lunatics also want to ban SaaS? Because if software is in the cloud you can't easily pirate it. I strongly believe that such legislation would only complicate my life. With high-speed networks and new protocols it's not that hard to imagine companies like Adobe or Autodesk moving their products almost completely to cloud. You would no longer "own" professional software, you would only rent access to it.

drcube 14y ago
> You would no longer "own" professional software, you would only rent access to it. That is exactly the current situation. Read the EULA sometime. If they want to keep that model, force them to make it explicit, and stop fooling people into thinking they own what they were sold.
- jarek-foksa 14y ago
  Yes, most EULAs and DRM systems impose restrictions that greatly limit what you are allowed to do with software. If you think this is fooling people then don't buy such software, donate money to Open Source projects or contract Open Source developers directly. Open Source model is great if you want to really own quality software without spending millions on it. What I fail to see is how legalizing file sharing on massive scale (akin to MegaUpload) and banning DRM technologies would improve consumer rights. The natural response from the market would be to move to the cloud which means even more restrictions and privacy concerns than in the current model. I agree that there are some reforms needed, but I'm against revolution that this document proposes.