Wes Phillips

Fred von Lohmann, senior intellectual property attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and our hero, sends along this link to the Center for Democracy and Technology's (CDT) thoughtful guidelines to how electronics product reviewers should evaluate digital rights management (DRM) issues.

It's obvious why I'm interested in it, but why am I linking to it? So you can review the reviewers, of course. Any review that endorses a product that requires cripple-ware and doesn't tell consumers how that will affect the is a bad review. People can see the shiny carcasses and pretty lights without intervention from us guys—the reason most folks read reviews is to find out the stuff they don't know.

Thanks, Fred!