DRM is a Folding Chair
Read Frank Field here (found via ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-syndicated.gif)
copyfight).
The significant point being that the power of DRM is not in its (easily subvertible) functionality, nor even in the potential legal sanctions consequent on its violation, but that its very existence will, over time, shape perception of that which it purports to protect.
Rights Economy, here we come...
[edit: no, not that Frank Field...]
copyfight).The significant point being that the power of DRM is not in its (easily subvertible) functionality, nor even in the potential legal sanctions consequent on its violation, but that its very existence will, over time, shape perception of that which it purports to protect.
Rights Economy, here we come...
[edit: no, not that Frank Field...]