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Wednesday, October 23, 2002
Orwell's DRM World --
Boing Boing Blog writes about DRM newspeak and observes that Seth Finkelstein has noted an eerie similarity between DRM and Orwell's Newspeak:
That is, for Newspeak, we have:
Its vocabulary was so constructed as to give exact and often very subtle expression to every meaning that a Party member could properly wish to express, while excluding all other meanings and also the possibility of arriving at them by indirect methods.
Don't we have, exactly, for Digital-Rights-Management:
Its vocabulary was so constructed as to give exact and often very subtle expression to every business model that a content industry member could properly wish to sell access, while excluding all other access and also the possibility of arriving at them by indirect methods.
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