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Wrapped up in Crypto Bottles (Heise)

[Posted March 13, 2003 by corbet]

Heise Online interviews John Perry Barlow. "I fear that Digital Rights Management today is Political Rights Management tomorrow. That embedding these kinds of technological controls into the very architecture of computing has the capacity to become a form of political control in the not so distant future."

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Posted Mar 20, 2003 9:48 UTC (Thu) by beejaybee (guest, #1581) [Link]

... and that is why governments are so keen on DRM; they want to use digital media as a "stalking horse" to control all use of all of our systems.

paranoia

Posted Mar 25, 2003 16:34 UTC (Tue) by xoddam (subscriber, #2322) [Link]

Governments are keen on DRM because our elected representatives are paid to be, it's nothing to do with Big Brother and everything to do with Mickey Mouse and friends. Same as invading Iraq is nothing to do with hating or helping Iraqis and everything to do with helping the arms and oil businesses.