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Empirical Study Shows DRM Encourages Infringement

Posted by timothy on from the next-week-how-gravity-lures-skiers-to-mountains dept.

Hucko writes "Ars Technica has a story about a study by Cambridge law professor Patricia Akester that suggests (declares?) that DRM and its ilk does persuade citizens to infringe copyright and circumvent authors' protections. The name of the study is 'Technological accommodation of conflicts between freedom of expression and DRM: the first empirical assessment.'" The study itself is available for download (PDF); there's also a distillation here.

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  1. Effectiveness? by silver007 · · Score: 1, Troll

    I just wonder how many people that 'matter' will pay any attention to a study like this. It seems like a little psuedo-psychology mixed in with a bias to me. Playing devil's advocate...

  2. Re:At last by mrrudge · · Score: 0, Troll

    Hi, I've got a call from a Mr Kettle ? I can barely hear through all the RAfuckingGE, but I think he's saying something about capital letters at the beginning to sentences ?