Thursday, June 22, 2006

WSJ.com - 'DRM' Protects Downloads, But Does It Stifle Innovation?

Interesting but too short and just glosses over many isses. The debate is about CONTROL pure and simple. While Mr. Attaway claims the debate is about CHOICES, he fails to realize that once all the entertainment media is "locked down" the choice will evaporate. We have "fair use" choices in the old system, not because the media companies allowed it, or because we made a deal when we bought the material, we have choices in the old system because there was no way to stop people from make those choices. DRM may be sold to use by giving us choices, but once it controls everything, those choice will disappear.

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