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Digital Rights Management
Earlier this week, the BBC hosted an on-line debate regarding digital rights management. I was taken with the very first comment, which seemed to thrash from pro-property rights to anticorporatism. I'm sharing it here in hopes of getting the libertarian perspective on the issue.
Pirates can get around any security that is put in place, so it is only the rest of us who suffer. I certainly won't pay money for a product which I will never technically own. I used to be able to buy a cd, use it wherever I liked and even sell it on afterwards. Now all of a sudden I can't necessarily even play the music I've bought wherever I choose to play it. I can't believe we have let the greedy music industry get away with it for so long! Steve Jobs is only in it for business gain though.
Chris, London
What's your take?
Posted by Wulf on February 10, 2007 at 03:35 PM
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I've blogged on DRM a number of times - it boils down to this:
Selling consumers a product that they want in a way that they don't like can't last for long.
DRM is dying a slow and natural death. Government intervention may speed up that process but in ways that will probably have unforseen consequences.
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at February 14, 2007 12:10 AM
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