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DRM Critique Airs On National Public Radio

Posted by kdawson on from the getting-the-word-out dept.

An anonymous reader writes to point out that a critique of Digital Rights Management made it onto the mainstream media this morning. NPR's Marketplace Morning Report ran a piece noting that with the demise of the VHS format we risk losing fair-use rights since we now have only digital media. From the article: "As our country moves forward to regulate digital copying, I urge us all to bear in mind T. S. Eliot's famous saying. 'Good poets borrow; great poets steal.'"

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  1. Re:Who are the real thieves? They are! by Dhalka226 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If anybody had called illegally downloading a copyrighted song theft, Slashdot posters would be up in arms. There would be a dozen posts about how copyright infringement isn't theft and it's not at all the same as, oh I don't know... stealing a car.

    But saying that getting a law changed to extend copyright is theft of the public domain, that's +5 Insightful. Equating it to them depriving you of your car... yeah, +5 Insightful.

    You know, I even agree with your point. What they're doing is not right. I'm just completely disgusted with the constant double standards around here. This sort of thing is exactly the reason why this site has become such a joke to so many people. When some groups can do nothing wrong and some can do nothing right--even when they are doing the same things--then we have a problem with intellectual honesty.

    Okay, mods. Since it is inevitable that calling /. hypocrisy out results in being modded down, I guess I'll help you out: The one you're looking for is "Offtopic." That way not only do you get to mod me down, you'd even be technically right about it.