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The fact that the DMCA could criminalize the act of inspecting the contents of an executeable file acquired legally and running on your personal computer and th
by skywhopper 11y ago
The fact that the DMCA could criminalize the act of inspecting the contents of an executeable file acquired legally and running on your personal computer and then telling other people about it is pretty good evidence that the DMCA is an immoral law that should be violated as much as possible. Kudos to the article's author.
- userbinator 11y agoIndeed, I think we should be doing everything we can to stop things from going further in the direction of the dystopia in Stallman's famous story: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html
- black_puppydog 11y agoIt is sometimes surprising how accurate some of Stallman's dystopian visions were and it is frightening because some of them have not become true. Yet.