November 20th, 2007
The Problem With DRM
Amazon’s MP3 store rips off your fair use rights - Boing Boing
The problem with DRM is that it tries to enforce a physical-world ruleset of scarcity on infinitely replicable data. One purchase, one copy, pretending to be physical goods. Which sucks, because data should be much more flexible than physical goods.
So then we get rid [...]
