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June 26, 2007

Another coffin nail for the undead DRM

Mark Gibbs recounts yet another experience in which the presence of DRM would have deterred any normal, sane person from buying digital content. (Fortunately, Mark is either not normal or not sane, so he persevered.) [Tags: mark_gibbs drm cmopyright copyleft ]

Posted by D. Weinberger at June 26, 2007 09:01 AM

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If deliberately giving something a shortened lifetime is 'Planned Obsolescence', then presumably, using DRM to Deliberately Render Malfunctional is 'Planned Inconvenience'?

Posted by: Crosbie Fitch | June 26, 2007 04:08 PM

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