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DRM and the Death of a Culture
Digital Rights Management represents a clear threat to individual freedoms and to the culture of a free society.
The owner of a copyright work certainly has the right to license that work in any way they wish -- and the license terms must be respected. Putting these works in a digital form seems to make it easy to enforce these terms with technology. The problem with technology-enforced restrictions isn't that they allow legitimate enforcement of rights; it's the collateral damage they cause in the process.
The issues are explained very clearly in this blog article by Simon Phipps
