February 21, 2006

GPL v4?

(Thanks to Raffaele for the link). With the development of the GPL v3 underway, an enterprising soul has launched a GPL v4 website to preempt the debate and allow Free Software enthusiasts to conduct proper flame wars on the subject of DRM and software patents. The site offers some amazing Read more

By Andres Guadamuz, ago

Felten on CD DRM

Ed Felten has written an extensive report on the use of DRM on CDs. The report’s conclusions are worthy of reproduction: First, the design of DRM systems is driven strongly by the incentives of the content distributor and the DRM vendor, but these incentives are not always aligned. Where they Read more

By Andres Guadamuz, ago