The Wall Street Journal ran a DRM debate between the MPAA's Fred Attaway and Brooklyn Law School's Wendy Seltzer that is a thing of beauty. Attaway calls DRM "the key to consumer choice."
Umm hmm. To quote Corey Doctorow, "I don't think any consumer ever woke up in the morning and said, 'Today, I'd like to be able to do less with my discs.'"
Seltzer responds: "I have not been asking for media free of charge. I have been asking for it free of usage and interoperability restrictions that go beyond copyright. The difference is critical -- I fully support a market in which creators are compensated for their works, but not one in which a creative industry can monopolize cultural reference and the technology around its works."
I think Ms. Seltzer wins handily. See what you think.
