Restrictions management on Freedom To Tinker
Freedom To Tinker has a bit of discussion about Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) on CDs.
Now I’m not arguing here that the current copyright deal is perfect or even close to perfect. The copyright deal is under stress and we need to keep thinking about how we might improve it or how we might renegotiate it to work better in the digital world. I’m not certain what the best deal would look like, but I’m pretty sure that it won’t try to lock in any kind of DRM.
While the entry leaves out the principal concern about restrictions management – that it is a cultural catastrophy -, it nicely points to the fact that the copyright system needs to be retooled instead of foisting its most restrictive interpretation upon people.
As we are going to run into this argument more frequently in the future, I found reading this very helpful.