Friday, June 18, 2004

Cory Doctorow tells Microsoft why DRM can't work and is bad for society, business, creators, and Microsoft in particular: This is the worst of all the ideas embodied by DRM: that people who make record-players should be able to spec whose records you can listen to, and that people who make records should have a veto over the design of record-players. I agree with pretty much everything he says. He misses the possibility that Apple went DRM with the iTunes music store because there was no alternative for getting the service going. But Steve Jobs seems to be suffering from the Sony disease when he talks about movies (conflict between Pixar and Apple responsibilities?) 11:22:19 PM