DMCA bad for Apple Users

Aguazul writes "TidBITS has published a really strong article on the DMCA and on how this is bad for Apple users, with some good links and suggestions for action. The author, Adam Engst, is regularly voted the most influential person in the Mac world outside of Apple, so this is a serious wake-up call to Apple users everywhere."

Re:Proof positive

[GTsquirrel42]

<sarcasm>Wow, incredible! Thank you for showing me the light. I'm sure that was the most reasonable argument I've ever seen. Gee, and I though I was straight all along; I'm glad you proved me wrong.</sarcasm>

It's a conspiracy

[XxtraLarGe]

Hmmm, the link is dead. *Somebody* must not want us to see it...

In other news

[af_robot]

Smoking is bad for Apple Users too!

Re:This is just stupid

[Dot.Com.CEO]

You do know the DMCA is a law and not an organisation, do you not?

Need to Look at *All* Users

[Waffle Iron]

Accurate reporting requires looking at all the facts. To get the complete story, we need to look at the whole picture, not just Apple users. In order to promote a more informed discussion, I'm posting the comprehensive data showing the DMCA's impact on the users of a wide variety of systems:

• Apple users (Mac): bad
• Apple ][ users: poor
• PC users (386): average
• PC users (Pentium): bad
• Amiga users: fair
• Sun users: poor
• C-64 users: good
• VAX users: bad
• PC users (8086): bad
• PC users (286): poor
• Alpha users: poor
• SGI users: undetermined
• PDP-11 users: bad
• AS-400 users: not applicable
• S/390 users: poor
• PC-jr users: excellent
• DEC Rainbow users: average
• PC users (486): not available
• Sinclair ZX80 users: nil
• Osbourne users: marginal
• Cray users: average
• Apollo users: bad
• Next users: poor
• TRS-80 users: very good
• Data Genereal users: to be determined
• Amdahl users: 'ERROR 43: invalid row requ..'
• Unisys users: unknown

As you can see, the actual results are all over the map. Focusing only on Apple users gives you a biased view of the issue.

just don't let the switch campaign catch wind...

[Nephroth]

or we'll have stoned teenagers saying "uuuuh yeaaaaah D uuh DMCA is uuuh bad and uuh stuff so buy an uuuh mac and uuuuuuuuh"

Hypocricy of uncle sam

[mary_will_grow]

Guns dont kill people, People kill people.

But People dont violate copyrights. Computers violate copyrights.