DRM is for Children

When we had little children, we had beds with railings so they wouldn’t fall out, playpens to keep them from crawling away, and the electric outlets were plugged with plastic stoppers so they wouldn’t try to stick a fork into the slots (that didn’t always work). The whole idea was that when they were too… Continue reading DRM is for Children

DRM vs Copyright

DRM. Forget what its intials mean. Who cares. What it is, is crystalized copyright. Back when I first dabbled with computers (IMSAIā€“I mean ancient), software was all hand-coded and freely exchanged among like-minded tinkerers. The only software you bought came from the kit manufacturers, and was really just another part like the power supply. But… Continue reading DRM vs Copyright