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?"

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[DataPath]

nuh uh. Not politics. DRM is an industry lobby-child. What industries? Media industries. Yeah... MPAA and the RIAA controlling media content on our PCs. The biggest step is getting DRM legally mandated. With that done, anything they do after that is just a small step. A simple thing. No... I think scarier than having government control our digital content is the media industry.

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

[gpinzone]

I like the idea of DRM. I'd love to register every piece of software on my hard drive. If a virus comes through my email filter, it can't run. That's the promise of DRM. The problem is that's not how it's going to be implemented. Someone else is going to hold the keys to my software for my own good.