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Piracy and DRM: Thanks for the Entertainment

By Parker Mason | Published: October 14, 2008
XKCD absoluteley nails the explanation of why DRM sucks: And in related news, Ars Technica reports that the entertainment industry has basically been making up stats about how much piracy is costing the U.S. Economy, while Larry Lessig (via Techdirt) argues in favor of decriminalizing musical piracy and remixing. When will the entertainment industry learn? -Parker
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Learning From The Past: How DRM Failed in Australia

By Jens | Published: December 4, 2007
While doing research for my Ph.D. I came across the history of how radio was introduced in Australia – and how it initially failed due to some ancient DRM suggested by the industry heavyweights. Official radio transmission in Australia commenced in 1923. In May that year the Postmaster-General convened a conference of all interested parties to [...]
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Believe The Hype(Machine)

By Parker Mason | Published: October 24, 2007
First there was Napster. When that fell, we had Kazaa and a host of imitators. Pandora rose to prominence a few years ago, but seems to be plagued by the same copyright and licensing limitations that the other systems had. There are BitTorrents, but these seem to be only good for popular or newly released albums. The [...]
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