A few bits'n'bytes i glared at this evening:
- Microsoft's Darknet Paper
- Lawrence Lessig: Free Culture
- Del.icio.us DRM page
- The Law of Computer Entropy
- Cory Doctorow: Microsoft Research DRM Talk
- DRM is Doubleplus good for Business, Congress advised
My reading was prompted by Sun's announcement of it's royalty-free digital rights management initiative, which at first glance seemed absurd to me. The EFF (Doctorow) has called it a "walled garden" and that's what it looks like from where i'm sitting.
And it's Doctorow's talk that is the pick of the reading too. I'd recommend anyone interested in digital media read it if they haven't already. I agree whole-heartedly with this observation,
Whenever a new technology has disrupted copyright, we've changed copyright. Copyright isn't an ethical proposition, it's a utlititarian one.
And the whole thing is well delivered, including some good points for you eBook non-believers (you know who you are!); speaking of which, i'll probably be compiling my fiction to PDF in the near future.