[free-sklyarov] Reply from the AAP

[Xcott Craver]

From: Amy Gwiazdowski <amyg at publishers.org>
>                                               AAP urges them to carefully
> consider how their arguments would apply to precisely the same activities in
> connection with encryption and other technological measures used to protect
> privacy in that same environment.

	Is there any privacy to protect "in that same environment?"
	I.e., publishing and broadcast media?

	Well, okay, let's compare.  In conventional encryption, privacy
	means blocking access to 3rd parties.  In copy protection,
	"privacy" means blocking access to 3rd parties AND to the intended
	recipient who paid for the message.

	The only way to sell people stuff that can't be pirated is to
	give them nothing, an empty box, in exchange for their money.
	Existing copy protection is a compromise:  you stop some piracy
	by giving the consumer a half-empty box.

> Amy Gwiazdowski
> AAP
							-S