LXer: The RIAA-Hollywood-DRM-Linux Suicide Pact

[ Thanks to Carla Schroder for this link. ]

"After reading Tom Adelstein's Preventing DVD Playback on Linux Like Prohibition in the 1920's, I had to lie down and think about it for some time. (Snoring is too a sign of thinking.) Now Tom has a scholarly style of writing. I'm more of a Bart Simpson, and the conclusion I came to after lengthy pondering and cogitation is 'WTF is wrong with those people?'

"Actually, I had already come to the conclusion that the fine folks behind the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Digital Rights Management, and the Business Software Alliance are either nuts, corrupt, or both..."

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