[Infowarrior] - DRM Scorecard: Hackers Batting 1000, Industry Zero

[Richard Forno]

DRM Scorecard: Hackers Batting 1000, Industry Zero

Posted by Alexander Wolfe, Aug 1, 2007 08:51 AM

Forget the moral questions: Whether the millions of kids who load up their
iPods from LimeWire are thieves, or whether there's something incongruous
about Sheryl Crow, a millionaire many times over, railing against piracy.
When you look at the technology, there's no getting around the fact that DRM
is an abject failure. I put together a scorecard, which shows that every
single significant attempt at consumer-music DRM has been cracked. Here it
is:

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