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Jeremy Allison On Why DRM Will Never Work
eldavojohn writes "At the ZDNet site, Jeremy Allison (a well-known employee of the Google corporation) goes on a hilarious rant against Digital Rights Management. He compares the access restriction technology with underwear gnomes & Star Trek while ending with: 'Believing in a DRM business model is like joining Star Fleet security, putting on your red shirt, and volunteering to beam down to the new unexplored planet with Kirk, Spock and McCoy. Someone will be coming back from that mission, it's just not likely to be the security guard. Always a true engineer, Scotty had the good sense to stay safely on board the ship.'"
I don't think that means what you think that means....
Sure it was full of interesting points, but at no point was I in any danger whilst I drank my coffee and read at the same time. I did not snicker, nor chuckle, nor even hint at a guffaw.
I nodded once or twice.
There was no smirk.
Amusing, yes. Hilarious? If I've told you once, I've told you a thousand times. DON'T EXAGGERATE!!!
Full contact chess? Checkers played by real people doing leapfrogs across the board? Live action D&D for cardio?
Closest thing I could find to an entertainment article.
This is so pathetic. Millions of people serve out their terms in jail but Paris gets a by.
One more example of dual justice systems in america these days. One for the rich and one for the rest of us.
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
Who's Paris Hilton?
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