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Feeding Frenzy: Digital Rights Management is really just an ecosystem for selling our own stuff to us again and again: 

“Intel and AMD love it. ATI and nVidia love it. Thomson and Philips and Sony and Matsushita and Samsung and LG love it. Every movie studio, TV network, and record company loves it. The only people who don’t love it are consumers, and neither industry nor government really cared much about them, ever.”

“Microsoft’s DRM strategy isn’t a suicide note at all.

But that doesn’t mean Microsoft will succeed with it and in this case IT refers to Microsoft’s hope to take from Howard Stern the title King of All Media.

For one thing, Windows Vista will fail as both a preserver of digital rights and a maintainer of pristine end-to-end DRM’d content. Vista will fail because the job it is attempting to do is too hard, because Microsoft isn’t especially good at these huge integration jobs, and because there is a smart hacker community determined to break Vista over and over again, which it will.”