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DRM is a disease. They might mitigate symptoms (corrupted anti-circumvention laws), but this sickness must be uprooted at its source to be really fixed. W3C made a great disservice for the Web by accepting DRM in the standard legitimizing it in the process.


DRM is a symptom. Perpetual copyright is the diseas.


The disease is using technical measures to enforce laws.


yeah, I don't know. For an imagined law "government can't violate privacy" I'd feel much better with strong encryption (a technical measure) then trusting government to prosecute and jail its employees when they violate law.


Using technical measure to enforce law is a necessity, the over-stepping of bounds is the disease.




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