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That is true, I can definately develop and use software to circumvent a copyright protection mechanism for interoperability reasons. You may reverse-engineer Fairplay for purposes of interoperability. If I have legally obtained documents, I will view them as I please - whether the person trying to restrict me from doing so is a monopoly or not is of no consequence.

Lastly, and most importantly, it is a consumers rights issue. Why wait until someone is a monopoly to start caring about promoting a free competitive market? We give companies huge amount of anti-competitive powers through 'IP', and practically unrestricted mergers, and then wait until they inevitably become monopolies (or oligopolies) to enforce a bunch of hollow antitrust laws that do little more than waist time in court. Everything else (even their very real illegal acts) is noise.įrankly, I have always thought our antitrust laws were pretty stupid.

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Microsoft rose to dominance because the IBM PC rose to dominance. The other PC's couldn't compete with this, and thus died. The IBM PC had the advantages of people wanting to use the same machine as at work and later of low costs due to commoditization. Like all other OSes at the time, they lived and died with the system it was written for. Lastly Microsoft didn't get to be a monopoly (in it's OS) through illegal means. This is helping Apple to create a monopoly, by sheltering it from competition due to legal restrictions, rather than basing it's success solely on the merit of the product (which is does have). It is also a free market issue - unlike most other media formats and DRM schemes (CSS, HDMI, WMA) which can be licensed by any party under RAND terms, Fairplay is not available for license. So the only solution to the Free Software issue is no DRM. Therefore, the only way to implement DRM as Free Software and follow the letter of the law, is if the keys are in hardware, and there is no way to do so while following the spirit of the law. The only way to do this is by obscuring the key in software or hardware. That said, Free Software and DRM Software are inherently incompatible as DRM is an encryption scheme that requires you to both widely distribute the key and keep it secret at the same time. It may be one that you don't care about, but it is one. I am legally prevented from writing, distributing or using Free Software that can play music encoded with Apple's Fairplay DRM.

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