Digital Rights Management is the bone-headed idea that you can control information once it has left your systems.
Privacy is the bone-headed idea that you can control information once it has left your systems.
The digital movie that can’t be pirated is as mythical as the business or government record that won’t be warehoused and cross-indexed. In both cases technology makes too easy and untraceable what interests make too desirable.
Eric Schmidt is an hypocrite and a tool. That said, I don’t think we’re going to have any more success controlling our bits than the media distributors have had with theirs, so we need to figure out something else.
Am I happy with this? Nope. But it is what it is.