Getting Screwed by DRM

It’s a bit long and meandering, but the Inquirer’s Charlie Demerjian has a good rant on digital rights management and market forces (via BoingBoing):

Hands up everyone who thinks the RIAA threatening to sue 12 year old girls and octogenarians made them buy more records? Hmm, I see no hands out there. OK, here’s an easier one for you. Hands up everyone who feels the poor underpaid RIAA members would starve to death peddling $18 CDs laden with crap if they couldn’t trample your rights? Nope, no hands there either.