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Budget and DMCA corporate welfareBudget and DMCA corporate welfarePosted Feb 17, 2009 20:13 UTC (Tue) by dmarti (subscriber, #11625)In reply to: Budget and DMCA corporate welfare by AnswerGuy Parent article: Apple: why iPhone jailbreaking should not be allowed Good point. The subsidy to Apple and Adobe has to be balanced against (1) The harm to customers and the public domain they use (2) The value that would have been created by the startups that anticircumvention suppresses (3) The costs of providing security coverage and administration for non-upgradeable, DRM-enforced technologies (4) The cost of works lost to users and libraries because they're not legally copyable when original media fails...and not just (5) the cost of enforcement. And that's not even counting the political risks of non-quotable, take-backable speech by politicians.
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