digitaldust

A couple of interesting blog posts about a paper presented by Microsoft to an ACM conference on DRM. One from peerfear, one from cory doctorow at boingboing. The authors and not microsoft say that darknets will win in the end, and if you can’t beat em you ought to join em. That all the DRM activity and the work to bring down these networks will actually disincentive any commercial activity in this area. DRM wrapped products are less attractive than open versions, even for consumers intending to use them for purely legal purposes (which anyone who has tried to move WMA files from machine to machine in perfect innocence can attest to).