Cory Doctorow, one of the founders of the hugely successful BoingBoing, is a legend. I’m just so glad that he’s consistantly putting himself and these issues on a public platform. Anyway, he’s some video of a recent speech he made:
NETRIBUTION - Cory Doctorow’s speech on copyright and successful media internet business models

His argument is simple - a business strategy which turns the majority of web users into criminals (39 out of 40 music downloaders according to the FT [Financial Times]) isn’t sustainable…. Beyond the activism part, is the issue about forming conversations between suppliers and consumers, about the democratisation of the media and how artists need to be successful in this context - which again comes right back to Cluetrain [also interesting reading, one article link, link to the cluetrain manifesto].

Meanwhile, Microsoft is off suing some poor hacker for cracking its crappy DRM AGAIN. The hacker’s program was called “FairUse4WM”. Here’s an article that sums up why DRM is bad and why Canadian and Australian plans to criminalise overriding it are really stupid: London Free Press - David Canton - DRM restricts our rights

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