Thursday, December 30, 2004

Boing Boing: Cory responds to Wired Editor on DRM

Boing Boing: Cory responds to Wired Editor on DRM

This neatly sums up the arguments against digital rights management and copy protection. It's a credit to marketing that so many ordinary users accept it, and even defend copy protection, because they think it is the "right thing to do." Piracy is wrong, but so is DRM. The two aren't related.

WorldChanging: Another World Is Here: Thomas P.M. Barnett: The Worldchanging Interview

WorldChanging: Another World Is Here: Thomas P.M. Barnett: The Worldchanging Interview

Whether you agree with him or not (I'd be surprised to see a UN "executive" going over well in some circles), it's good to see U.S. military people applying some serious thought to increasing security. We're still in the putting-out-fires stage at the moment.