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DRM should always be a choice

Jesper's recent frustration with a bug in the DRM support on his Windows Media Center Edition (MCE) system demonstrates a couple of basic truths in system reliability: Complexity negatively impacts reliability. DRM contributes to complexity. Clearly...

No, I don't want your -bleep- software

Freeware and shareware seems to come laden with 'extras' these days. The DivX video player comes with Firefox and the Google Toolbar. QuickTime (another movie player, graphic viewer and patch inducer) comes with iTunes. Nero comes with the Yahoo...
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When the inevitable happens, is it really news?

The BBC has an article about the cracking of Microsoft's DRM protections for Windows Media format files. As I've mentioned before , "DRM works in exactly one scenario: when the owner of the rights also controls the behaviour of those subject to DRM"....
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Kurzweil's DRM killer

Okay, so it's really a device for allowing blind people to read signs, menus, receipts, etc, without having to drag the print to a scanner. But consider that this will effectively scan and read any print that is visible anywhere, and you realise that...
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