DRM More Important Than Life or Security?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday March 21, 2006 @11:27PM from the but-at-least-our-music-will-be-safe dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Ed Felten of Freedom to Tinker has an interesting writeup regarding how copyright holders are still having serious objections to the built in exceptions of the DMCA even when it might threaten lives or national security. From the article: 'One would have thought they'd make awfully sure that a DRM measure didn't threaten critical infrastructure or endanger lives, before they deployed that measure. But apparently they want to keep open the option of deploying DRM even when there are severe doubts about whether it threatens critical infrastructure and potentially endangers lives.'"

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Thanks for the fucking! by Fecal+Troll+Matter · 2006-03-21 23:30 · Score: -1, Troll

First post.
keep banning me for 24 hours, cowboy!
Can't see the problem... by Anonymous Coward · 2006-03-22 00:51 · Score: -1, Troll

This is America doing what America does best.

Don't like it? Don't be American. Try to kill as many of them as possible. Don't trade with them. Leave them on the continent they had ruined and get Canada and Mexico to close borders.

Then get on with your life in the rest of the world.