Doctorow’s DRM Talk at MSFT
On June 17, Cory Doctorow gave a talk about DRM (digital rights management) at Microsoft Research in Redmond, WA. Very interesting (and very accessible) if you’re at all curious about the growing restrictions on digital media. Doctorow has been active on intellectual property rights (he’s a staffer for EFF), and we need more people like him to get the word out that people don’t want restrictive laws preventing them from fair use of the media they’ve purchased. It’s important to note that the talk takes place at MSFT, a champion of DRM—I’d be curious to know if questions were allowed and what, potentially, Doctorow was queried about by the Softies.
2 Comments
Leave a comment
This weblog is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
Validation: XHTML 1.0 • CSS 2.1 • Atom 1.0
manufactured environments
This is a blog about technology, music, vinyl, turntables and more.
Blog Feed: 
Archives: 2000 to 2008
About: Daniel Stout
• Classic Entries
• The Tag Cloud
• Contact
my other blogs
Manufactured Fotos is a collection of my photography.
Manufactured Podcasts is a podcast featuring poetry and PDFcasts.
There weren't any limits on the questions. Most of the ones I heard about were the usual followup kinds of things. Actually harder questions were asked on the blogs, if I remember right.
Was there something you were wondering about?
Robert --
The question I'm curious about—and that I hoped the questions afterward might reveal—was whether the Microsoft crowd was receptive to the ideas being presented. I was wondering what impact those ideas had on the people there. I don't suppose MSFT will abandon DRM on account of Cory's discussion solely, but it would be interesting to know if perceptions were altered about the topic.