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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
DRM is to rights management like DDT is to pest management.
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I find DRM offensive, but it could be a lot worse. Some video game companies are going to a model where you have to be verified by an online check every 5-10 minutes while you are playing the game. At least the current DRM is easily strippable -- there are even simple-to-use GUI interfaces for the not-geek-inclined among us.
Your quote strikes me as symbolic of the whole thing. DDT is a very safe and effective pesticide. The ban was based on the same crap science as global warming. Millions of children have died since the ban as there has been no replacement nearly as cheap or as effective as DDT. Yet this tragedy gets no coverage. The suffering of millions of African children isn't important to people unless it fits their view of the world.
http://www.junkscience.com/malaria_clock.html
-Marcy