Comments on: DRM strikes again – this time its Wal*Mart http://www.teleread.org/2008/09/28/drm-strikes-again-this-time-its-walmart/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:25:26 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: pond http://www.teleread.org/2008/09/28/drm-strikes-again-this-time-its-walmart/comment-page-1/#comment-917605 pond Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:00:14 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=12188#comment-917605 Indeed, this is the great fear. An entire generation of arts lost forever to working, but unreadable and no-longer-supported DRM. Maybe future archaeologists will be searching for 'Rosetta stones' to decrypt DRM files. And maybe it's time for somebody like Cory to write an update on 'Fahrenheit 451' where the speakers are the underground that has the tools to crack DRM, and the firemen are the media cartels' secret police, granted extraordinary extrajudicial powers to track down and destroy all violations of DCMA -- even where the DRM is abandoned and the files are elsewise worthless. The hero might be an obscure booklover laboring in the bowels of the Library of Congress, a la Dr 'Indiana' Jones... (Just forego the 'Short Round' please.) Indeed, this is the great fear. An entire generation of arts lost forever to working, but unreadable and no-longer-supported DRM.

Maybe future archaeologists will be searching for ‘Rosetta stones’ to decrypt DRM files.

And maybe it’s time for somebody like Cory to write an update on ‘Fahrenheit 451′ where the speakers are the underground that has the tools to crack DRM, and the firemen are the media cartels’ secret police, granted extraordinary extrajudicial powers to track down and destroy all violations of DCMA — even where the DRM is abandoned and the files are elsewise worthless.

The hero might be an obscure booklover laboring in the bowels of the Library of Congress, a la Dr ‘Indiana’ Jones…

(Just forego the ‘Short Round’ please.)

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