[Leaplist] Cory Doctorow, to Microsoft, on "Why DRM is bad"

[patrick]

Favorite quotes:

If you don't build the player that accepts everyones records, "Someone
will do it"!

"Steve Jobs isn't going to do it: he's off at the D conference telling
studio execs not to release hi-def movies until they're sure no one will
make a hi-def DVD burner that works with a PC."

"Whenever a new technology has disrupted copyright, we've changed copyright.

Copyright isn't an ethical proposition, it's a utilitarian one. There's
nothing *moral* about paying a composer tuppence for the piano-roll
rights, there's nothing *immoral* about not paying Hollywood for the
right to videotape a movie off your TV. They're just the best way of
balancing out so that people's physical property rights in their VCRs
and phonographs are respected and so that creators get enough of a
dangling carrot to go on making shows and music and books and paintings.

Technology that disrupts copyright does so because it simplifies and
cheapens creation, reproduction and distribution. "



This is a MUST READ, for everyone who ever listened to music on a radio,
played a VHS or a DVD movie, or owns a computer.


http://www.masternewmedia.org/2004/06/19/why_drm_is_bad_for.htm