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So freedom is not having the choice to use DRM?


I don't buy that argument, sorry. Because it requires something as anti-freedom as DRM to exist in the first place.


You would outlaw locks for the front doors of houses too?


No, because physical goods and 0's and 1's are not the same.


All 0's and 1's occupy real electrons in real space. They are not part of the ether. You are making a distinction between electronic information and the physical that is artificially derived.

I think perhaps you are saying that a pattern of information should not be locked up, but instantiations of a pattern can be.




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