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Trenien · 12-09-2007, 02:20 AM

Ok, I just listened to Doctorow's piece.

By the way, the link to the audio file is wrong, it's here

Harryt, have you listened/read it? It's nothing to do with Doctorow's views on copyright. What he states here is simply what any half-competent mathematician/cryptographer will tell you: Fundamentally DRM can't work!

That's why DCMA and the like exist. If DRM could work, governments wouldn't have been lobbied into passing such laws.

12-09-2007, 02:20 AM	#6
Trenien Groupie Posts: 173 Karma: 3277 Join Date: Jun 2007 Device: Librie, eReader, Kobo Glo	Ok, I just listened to Doctorow's piece. By the way, the link to the audio file is wrong, it's here Harryt, have you listened/read it? It's nothing to do with Doctorow's views on copyright. What he states here is simply what any half-competent mathematician/cryptographer will tell you: Fundamentally DRM can't work! That's why DCMA and the like exist. If DRM could work, governments wouldn't have been lobbied into passing such laws.