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Digital rights mismanagement
For those who missed it, Adam L. Penenberg had this in Slate the other day: Digital rights mismanagement. "The music industry is supposed to sell music, not the medium it comes in, right?"
November 20, 2005 at 01:26 AM in DRM | Permalink
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That article was mostly a fluff piece. It seemed very anti-Apple, despite Apple's DRM being the least repressive DRM scheme in play today and despite it being the scheme that helped make digital music downloads a viable market. The author should have mentioned those successes, even if he doesn't approve of DRM. He didn't bash Sony's rootkit nearly enough in comparison. I liked hearing about the LP copyprotection scheme, however. I hadn't heard of that one before - just as dopey as any of their other proposals. Record execs are greedy control freaks and we remain powerless against them because our elected officials are tools instead of vanguards against these abusers of fair use. (Like my congresstool, Hatch) Whether we intend to or not, we dive underground to restore "fair use" in our lives.
Posted by: D Cootey | Nov 20, 2005 4:22:04 PM
