RE: Dynamic Querying solutions open for comments

> De : [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] De la part
> de Arne Babenhauserheide
> Envoyé : mardi 20 mars 2007 15:05
> À : [email protected]
> Objet : Re: [the_gdf] Dynamic Querying solutions open for comments
> 
> Am Dienstag, 20 de März de 2007 13:31 schrieb Philippe Verdy:
> > So this means supporting and promoting free licences: Creative Commons,
> > GPL, and so on. And making sure that those contents are catalogued
> > somewhere with their signature. That's what LimeWire has implemented,
> but
> > it is still not enough.
> 
> A start of a useful list of licenses for content would be:
> 
> - CC-Licenses (not free, because they don't protect the useability of
> sources): http://creativecommons.org
> - GNU FDL: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html
> - Art Libre: http://artlibre.org/licence/lal/en/
> - LFFI (Lizenz für freie Inhalte):
> http://www.webstar.eu.tt/freieinhalte-webstar.html
> 
> It would be great, if software packages could be examined and the license
> extracted, so we can show GPL Programs as GPL.
> 
> > For example, allowing to search for torrents and being able to check the
> > licence from the torrent source. Gnutella will still be used to locate
> the
> > location of torrent mirrors, so this will help existing torrent sources
> to
> > scale better with more downloaders not requiring an access to the origin
> > server.
> 
> I don't really see torrents being the way to go, but it seems quite
> doable.
> A free library shared among Gnutella-Clients which does the license
> checking
> would be the best option here, I think.
> 
> > Remember that Gnutella is now heavily criticized from many places
> because
> 
> That's nothing new.
> But license showing would be great, nontheless.
> 
> > Then we could develop a system allowing users to trade their licences
> > legally (i.e. one licence for another), or to try a media currently
> owned
> > by someone, using our own DRM system where the downloaded media has a
> > temporary usage right for limited time, until they get a permanent
> licence,
> > which they could trade online after selecting within the set of trials.
> 
> I'll oppose any DRM scheme.

I have not proposed to make DRM mandatory. Only as a way to prove that the
licences are valid. Nothing would prohibit to use the file without the
attached DRM which could be detached easily, whenever the user needs to do
it legally for its personal use.

So what I propose is not enforcing DRM, but allowing DRM-protected contents
that users already have to be managed on the network and saved there,
without users loosing their existing licences only because their hardware
fail, or they need a new hardware.

Users have a legal right for backup solutions, but the current proprietary
DRM solutions are restricting users of their legal right they have paid for.

We, users, are deseperately waiting for reliable backup solutions for the
costly licences we get. But the media companies are pushing us illegally to
void our simplest backup solutions, by making them completely impossible to
perform and by binding a user licence (which is all about a virtual contract
between a user and a right owner) into pieces of hardwares (which we do not
own really). This is the difference of nature between a virtual licence and
a physical hardware that is horrible.

A licence is nothing else than a service, it is immaterial by nature and
must remains immaterial, i.e. not linked to any hardware solution. So it
should be supported by pure network services, and remain also neutral to
techologies (so that it can adapt to changes of technologies).

With the current practices, all consumers are not getting their
try-before-buy right.

Remember that if you need to change your hardware just to be allowed to use
a licence, then you are throwing away your money, and you are creating
garbages that are polluting the earth environment (because the hardware
cannot be reused or serviced freely to maintain it usable). Licences
attached to hardware are intrinsically not interoperable, this is definitely
not the way to go.