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August 01, 2007
Doctorow: Digital rights management is Lysenkoism
Cory Doctorow, activist, science fiction author and co-editor of the blog Boing Boing, has a new column over at Media Guardian, the website for media professionals of the British newspaper The Guardian. His first column is on digital rights management schemes, and as you'd expect, Doctorow pulls no punches in his message to content providers: The wheat won't grow under Lysenkoism, and you can't stop people from copying files on a computer. But you can still get rich -- just sell the same stuff, without the DRM. We're the same customers, and we'd buy just as many DVDs if there was no anti-copying magic on them.
Posted by Ed Mierzwinski at August 1, 2007 09:03 AM
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