Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Getting Going with Gowers
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| None is thornier than DRM. Again and again in this document, questions arise
>| about how people can be given the ability to derive the full benefit of
>| copyright material when DRM gets in the way - and to what extent they should
>| be allowed to circumvent it.
>|
>| Of course, my answer is simple: get rid of the whole damn lot. Even a year or
>| two that might have seemed radical or utopian, but with nearly all the main
>| record labels embracing that strategy - and the film companies about to begin
>| their own slow slouch towards Bethlehem - I think it will soon be seen as the
>| best and most sensible thing to do.
> `----
>
> http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2008/01/getting-going-with-gowers.html
>
Just at the point where HMG is trying to drive through some
ill-considered anti-consumer pro-DRM legislation. Nothing like being at
the trailing edge of technology, is there, HMG?
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