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DRM Roundup by Cory Doctorow

Thursday, May 2nd, 2019 (No comments yet)
Businesses, Technology
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Stolen from Schneier (but always credited), three articles by Cory Doctorow on DRM. My favorite tag line:

Digital rights management is a lie concocted to bilk the entertainment industry out of a fortune - it's time to wake up.

That is the truth. I could almost feel sorry for the industry, if they weren't using copyright lawsuits.

Cory is a guy who gets it:

Not one of them has ever stopped the widespread, unauthorised copying of media. Not one of them ever will.

Sounds like something something I might have said once. You would think these companies have at least one IT person both smart enough to realize this and gutsy enough to tell management.

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