Building DRM into chips, hard drives, and OSes is dumb, because of unintended consequences to normal computer operation, says Victor Yodaiken in this guest editorial. Yodaiken uses accepted engineering best practices, along with clever real-world examples such as the recent Sony rootkit debacle, to explain… why.

Excerpt: “If PC hardware and base software prevents digitizing of copyrighted images, can an armed robber turn off security cameras by wearing a T-shirt with a copyrighted image on it?”

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