The Economist: Writing is on the Wall for Copy Protection
The UK-based Economist has a great article about digital rights management (DRM) called “Criminalizing the Consumer.”
It’s an easy-to-read history of copy protection, as well as how it applied to making mix tapes way back when, and where’s it’s headed now — hopefully, the garbage bin.
From the article: “Belatedly, music executives have come to realize that DRM simply doesn’t work. It is supposed to stop unauthorized copying, but no copy-protection system has yet been devised that cannot be easily defeated.
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