A nice little article on Apple’s resistance (so far) to hardwired Digital Rights Management. What exactly is DRM and how does it affect me, you ask? Well:
The era of Digital Rights Management, commonly called DRM, is swiftly moving closer, thanks to the Intels and AMDs and Microsofts. They’re busy selling and creating the tools that give copyright holders the ability to tell users of copyrighted material — customers, scholars, libraries, etc. — precisely how they may use it. DRM, in the most typical use of the expression, is about owners’ rights. It would be more accurate to call DRM, in that context, “Digital Restrictions Management.”
This kind of “innovation” flies in the face of fair use which will become all the more important as we move further into a digital world.
