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Big Brother Amazon? Not Really

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victor_yugo7/20/2009 4:49:09 pm PDT

re: #441 buzzsawmonkey

Yes, but I wasn’t understanding quite what sort of application of it you were referring to.

Appropriate DRM (whatever that means) is one thing. But requiring that I apply DRM to my own creations before I’m allowed to publish them on the Internet… in other words, forcing me to assert copyright, whether I want to or not… may be some publishers’ wet dream, but it denies me the freedom to do with my own labor as I will.

As for Microsoft and Apple (and Adobe, for that matter), they are requiring my trust that they won’t abuse their DRM on my works. And when they require my trust, is when they lose it.