Doc Searls sums up the current (seemingly one-sided) battle between Hollywood and the recording industry and everybody else on the issue of digital rights management. Even if you don't particularly care about the royalties Internet radio stations now have to pay, he includes a quote from San Jose Mecury News columnist Dan Gilmor on the recording industry's effort to win legal absolution for hacking peer-to-peer networks:
If you or I asked Congress for permission to legally hack other people's computers, we'd be laughed off Capitol Hill. Then we'd be investigated by the FBI and every other agency concerned with criminal violations of privacy and security.Back to CompendiumThen again, you and I aren't part of the movie and music business. We aren't as powerful as an industry that knows no bounds in its paranoia and greed, a cartel that boasts enough money and public-relations talent to turn Congress into a marionette.
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