John Perry Barlow On The Dangers of DRM

D4C5CE writes "In an extensive interview with one of Europe's most renowned IT publishers, EFF cyber-rights activist John Perry Barlow speaks out against attempts to bring the entire planet under the control of dangerous Digital Restrictions Management schemes overprotected by clones of the dreaded DMCA (Dumbest Mistake on Copyright in America, or something). Barlow is one of countless critics of DRM and the DMCA, including Lawrence Lessig and many other Professors of Law as well as Linux Kernel Guru Alan Cox and the Internet Society. Now, are you mailing, faxing and reading these views to all of the many misguided opponents of the BALANCE Act?"

Comments

Do we need hardware level DRM for this?

[Anonymous Coward]

http://www.hut.fi/~jpkarna/papers/sign.html
Seems something like this would work quite well.

Re:DRM is fine, as long as I hold the keys.

[Phantasmo]

If you're a Windows user, the excellent (and gratis) Kerio Personal Firewall will make MD5 hashes of every app on your machine that requests network access. If the MD5 of an app changes, it alerts you before the app is allowed to run.

If you could get this going with every binary on your machine you'd have basically what you're asking for.