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Cory Doctorow on Digital Rights Management

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the playing-all-the-records dept.

VerdeRana writes "I just heard the EFF's Cory Doctorow give this fantastic argument critiquing DRM. He makes a great case for why DRM is bad for society, business, and artists, why it simply don't work, and why Microsoft (the audience for this talk) should not invest in it. Broadcast this far and wide, and maybe someone will listen."

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  1. Re:Brad Pitt ??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Erm... Brad Pitt was supposed to be a Greek, not a Geek nor a Roman.

    Not Brad Pitt the actor, you goofball. Brad Pitt the famous Gaul tribal leader of 96-50 BC.

  2. Re:Why DRM will work by lachlan76 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm a 14-year-old nerd who can burn cds for 14-year-old chicks. How does DRM help then? The worst it can do is wreck my life by letting people find out that I have their cds on me, and they'd think that I like that band. But how does that stop the copying?

    In order stop copying of cds, we must lower the nerd to cd and the nerd to non-nerd ratio to 1/10000 and 1/500. Any more nerds, and DRM will be useless.

  3. Why DRM Won't Work (A Simpler Explanation) by ArbiterOne · · Score: 5, Funny

    Here's a better explanation for non-geeks.