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Feb 12, 2006
Cory Doctorow on piracy and DRM
posted at 16:38 GMT by T.Whid in /news/twhid
Could it be better timing?
On the eve of the release of Pirated Movie (more on Pirated Movie here) the text of Cory Doctorow’s talk to a group of Microsoft employees concerning DRM (Digital Rights Management) is posted to the web.
Needless to say, Doctorow describes the problems with DRM and the entertainment industry’s branding of consumers as ‘pirates’ much better then I can. Pirated Movie was created in part to poke fun and expose the hypocrisy of this whole mess. Doctorow’s talk touches on the technology behind DRM (and why it fails), dangers of branding large portions of society criminals, why it’s bad for business, and why it’s bad for creators.
AND he uses Pirates of The Caribbean as an example in his talk (which is also the subject of MTAA’s Pirated Movie).
The full text Cory Doctorow’s June 17th Microsoft Research DRM talk
There is slashdot discussion here. permanent link to this post
On the eve of the release of Pirated Movie (more on Pirated Movie here) the text of Cory Doctorow’s talk to a group of Microsoft employees concerning DRM (Digital Rights Management) is posted to the web.
Needless to say, Doctorow describes the problems with DRM and the entertainment industry’s branding of consumers as ‘pirates’ much better then I can. Pirated Movie was created in part to poke fun and expose the hypocrisy of this whole mess. Doctorow’s talk touches on the technology behind DRM (and why it fails), dangers of branding large portions of society criminals, why it’s bad for business, and why it’s bad for creators.
AND he uses Pirates of The Caribbean as an example in his talk (which is also the subject of MTAA’s Pirated Movie).
The full text Cory Doctorow’s June 17th Microsoft Research DRM talk
There is slashdot discussion here. permanent link to this post
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