MSNBC: Info With a Ball and Chain
MSNBC: Info With a Ball and ChainStopping piracy and increasing privacy makes sense. But what will we lose by locking up our songs, movies, books, files and e-mails? Will we suffer the worst-case Digital Rights Management (DRM) scenario: a world so constricted that we can’t cut or paste a line from a poem, or forward the latest sick Internet joke to our buddies? I doubt it. But I do think that the files that arrive in our in boxes and jukeboxes will be on tighter leashes. And while I understand the reasoning for this, the prospect doesn’t gladden my heart.
Permalink | Thursday, June 19, 2003
Page 1 of 1 pages