[pp.int.general] Protest certain musicians?

[Christian Hufgard]

Félix Robles wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Christian Hufgard
> <pp at christian-hufgard.de>wrote:
>
>> >> And as far as I know, Pirates don't want to force everybody to
>> release
>> >> the
>> >> sources for every products he sells. Or do we want this?
>> >>
>> > There's another reason why we don't need the 3d studio max file of a
>> > movie:
>> > when we watch a movie we don't run the risk of executing on our
>> machine
>> > something we don't want without our knowledge. Perhaps windows is
>> secretly
>> > giving microsoft our personal information, for example. When we listen
>> to
>> > a
>> > song, we don't run that risk (or if we do is because of the software,
>> > which should be free).
>>
>> Thats another reason. You were first talking about the possibility to
>> improve something. The potential danger is something completly else.
>> When
>> did you read the last time every line of code your kernel executed
>> during
>> startup? Or did an in depth-analysis of your browser?
>>
> It's called a freedom for a reason. Not an obligation.

Back to my question: Do you want that pirates force every creator of every
software to hand out his sourcecode? Or do we respect a creators choice
not do so - and use other software that grants us this freedom?

Christian