Showing posts with label concrete. Show all posts
Showing posts with label concrete. Show all posts

26 September 2006

DRM's Problems Made Concrete

One of the problems with DRM is that it can override traditional copyright to forbid anyone ever having access to content: effectively it is removed from the intellectual commons forever. If that's too abstract, here's a concrete example of something that it's going to be hard to open up - with equally serious problems for the environmental commons.