http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2007/11/26/drm-bullshit/ My opinions only. I do not represent any organization in this publication. Thu, 24 May 2012 02:05:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2007/11/26/drm-bullshit/#comment-99017 Mike Linksvayer » Fooled by common interest Sat, 07 Jun 2008 05:52:01 +0000 http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2007/11/26/drm-bullshit/#comment-99017 [...] DRM strikes me as another example of people fooled by common interest, in this case of cryptography and censorshipcopyright enforcement. Both have something to do with preventing someone from getting access to information. That doesn’t make one a tool for the other (in either direction). Of course that knowledge was distributed, but apparently not visibly in the right places, resulting in lots of bad projects. [...] [...] DRM strikes me as another example of people fooled by common interest, in this case of cryptography and censorshipcopyright enforcement. Both have something to do with preventing someone from getting access to information. That doesn’t make one a tool for the other (in either direction). Of course that knowledge was distributed, but apparently not visibly in the right places, resulting in lots of bad projects. [...]

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