Comments on: Copyright and the art of plagiarism. http://lucasmcdonnell.com/copyright-and-the-art-of-plagiarism/ / knowledge connects people. Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:32:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Lucas McDonnell http://lucasmcdonnell.com/copyright-and-the-art-of-plagiarism/comment-page-1/#comment-23533 Lucas McDonnell Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:33:18 +0000 http://www.lucasmcdonnell.com/copyright-and-the-art-of-plagiarism/#comment-23533 No problem lance, I'm always happy to get comments even on old posts. Your comment is especially interesting since we can now see what Jobs' stance turned out to actually be. I always try to give people the benefit of the doubt, but in this case, I don't think I have much hope of Apple being a crusader for breaking DRM (as you said). It's unfortunate, because I think a company like Apple has a great opportunity for making headway in this area. It's just a reminder that even though Apple's marketing portrays them as 'outside the mainstream', they are in fact, a very mainstream company in many ways (not that that's necessarily a bad thing of course, depending on the specifics). No problem lance, I’m always happy to get comments even on old posts. Your comment is especially interesting since we can now see what Jobs’ stance turned out to actually be. I always try to give people the benefit of the doubt, but in this case, I don’t think I have much hope of Apple being a crusader for breaking DRM (as you said).

It’s unfortunate, because I think a company like Apple has a great opportunity for making headway in this area. It’s just a reminder that even though Apple’s marketing portrays them as ‘outside the mainstream’, they are in fact, a very mainstream company in many ways (not that that’s necessarily a bad thing of course, depending on the specifics).

]]> By: lance http://lucasmcdonnell.com/copyright-and-the-art-of-plagiarism/comment-page-1/#comment-23431 lance Sun, 15 Feb 2009 10:43:57 +0000 http://www.lucasmcdonnell.com/copyright-and-the-art-of-plagiarism/#comment-23431 I wouldn't count on Jobs to break down DRM. He's currently fighting for it, and against exemptions to the DMCA, when it comes to <a href="http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/02/apple-sides-with-mpaa-riaa-against-drm-circumvention.ars" rel="nofollow">jailbreaking the iPhone</a>. Edit: Oops. Please pardon the reviving of such an old post. I didn't notice it was made Feb 13th <i>two years ago</i>, I thought it was only a couple days old. Coincidentally, Techdirt posted an article on <a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20090212/1238593748.shtml" rel="nofollow">taking photos out of the public domain</a> February 13th 2009, which I assumed you linked to at the beginning. I wouldn’t count on Jobs to break down DRM. He’s currently fighting for it, and against exemptions to the DMCA, when it comes to jailbreaking the iPhone.

Edit: Oops. Please pardon the reviving of such an old post. I didn’t notice it was made Feb 13th two years ago, I thought it was only a couple days old. Coincidentally, Techdirt posted an article on taking photos out of the public domain February 13th 2009, which I assumed you linked to at the beginning.

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