The BBC on DRM
BBC contributor Bill Thompson has a thoughtful essay on the promotion of Digital Rights Management (DRM):
The problem is that digital rights management relies on locking content away, and as long as we have general purpose computers capable of running whatever code someone cares to write then there will always be ways around those content locks.
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That might change if we get "trusted" computers which will only run approved programs, but even then nobody is going to come round and collect today's PCs from our homes, so there are going to be enough open systems around to cause problems for any DRM systems out there.
Well worth reading. [Via digg]
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