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The person you're responding to didn't say "it's a bad article" or that "it can be worked around". I'm guessing that the root comment was simply a reaction to t

The person you're responding to didn't say "it's a bad article" or that "it can be worked around". I'm guessing that the root comment was simply a reaction to the title. I bet they didn't even read the article. However, you must be aware that the majority of the technical user community hates DRM. Regarding your points 1, 2 and 3... where does it stop? Should we always be enthusiastic about experimentation for the sake of experimentation? At what point would you say "that's stupid"? For instance, what if the title was: How To Dump Toxins In Your Local Water Supply Would you read the article and then come here and congratulate the author on their efforts? I bet most people would glance at the article and then come here and complain about too many toxins in the water and what a jerk the author is.

scrollaway 12y ago
Congratulations on hitting as many fallacies as you possibly could in a single comment. You managed to compare, literally, "poisoning the water supply" with... web development. You know where it stops? It stops when you start putting people in danger. I cannot believe you're seriously asking that question (and yet, I have to believe you are seriously asking that question, because the alternative is that you're an awful troll). I would like to encourage you to read my comment, and then read it again, and keep doing that until you understand the difference between killing people and blogging on the internet. I would then like to encourage you to read up on things such as "white hat hacking", pentesting and so on to give you an insight as to why, in the IT world, if the good guys don't push the limits first, the bad guys will.
- WorldWideWayne 12y ago
  Fallacy schmallacy. I was talking about blogging about experiments in poisoning people (just a bit, not killing them :) Anyway, you don't think people are harmed by DRM? Of course they are. Time and water are among the most valuable things we have and DRM steals away everybody's time so a few can profit. Let's try another hypothetical title: How To Force Your Neighbors Take Out Your Trash or, How To Write A Virus That Steals Banking Information...How To Really Embarrass Your Coworkers...9 Ways To Enrage Internet Commenters...(this is fun!) Would you applaud those experiments? I'm guessing YES since "It stops when you start putting people in danger." and nobody is being put in danger. (BTW, I'm just doing my own experiment here - I guess I should have said that. You're not being a very good sport though ;) Seriously - I'm sitting here trying to understand your point of view and I made some POLITE arguments. You mis-represented one of my arguments and then patronized me to the extreme, so is that the kind of behavior that you're promoting?

scrollaway 12y ago

Congratulations on hitting as many fallacies as you possibly could in a single comment. You managed to compare, literally, "poisoning the water supply" with... web development. You know where it stops? It stops when you start putting people in danger. I cannot believe you're seriously asking that question (and yet, I have to believe you are seriously asking that question, because the alternative is that you're an awful troll). I would like to encourage you to read my comment, and then read it again, and keep doing that until you understand the difference between killing people and blogging on the internet. I would then like to encourage you to read up on things such as "white hat hacking", pentesting and so on to give you an insight as to why, in the IT world, if the good guys don't push the limits first, the bad guys will.

WorldWideWayne 12y ago
Fallacy schmallacy. I was talking about blogging about experiments in poisoning people (just a bit, not killing them :) Anyway, you don't think people are harmed by DRM? Of course they are. Time and water are among the most valuable things we have and DRM steals away everybody's time so a few can profit. Let's try another hypothetical title: How To Force Your Neighbors Take Out Your Trash or, How To Write A Virus That Steals Banking Information...How To Really Embarrass Your Coworkers...9 Ways To Enrage Internet Commenters...(this is fun!) Would you applaud those experiments? I'm guessing YES since "It stops when you start putting people in danger." and nobody is being put in danger. (BTW, I'm just doing my own experiment here - I guess I should have said that. You're not being a very good sport though ;) Seriously - I'm sitting here trying to understand your point of view and I made some POLITE arguments. You mis-represented one of my arguments and then patronized me to the extreme, so is that the kind of behavior that you're promoting?