This video covers the basic history of Digital Rights Management (DRM) and related copy protection techniques. If you haven’t ventured into understanding this issue, this video is a good starting place!
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Cory Doctorow is a smart thinker when it comes to computers and how they relate to our basic rights. Over the summer he delviered a lecture titled The Coming Civil War over General-purpose Computing and it’s a fascinating look into the future of DRM (digital rights management), firmware, security, openness, and how we as a culture relate to computers.
Watch the lecture below and you may also want to check out the text version of his argument.