How The Copyright Industry Made Your Computer Less Safe

Posted by BernardSwiss on Feb 8, 2014 5:56 PM EDT
Techdirt; By Mike Masnick
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I've already written one piece about Cory Doctorow's incredible column at the Guardian concerning digital rights management and anti-circumvention, in which I focused on how the combination of DRM and anti-circumvention laws allows companies to make up their own copyright laws in a way that removes the rights of the public. But there's a second important point in Doctorow's piece and it's that the combination of DRM and anti-circumvention laws make all of our computers less safe. For this to make sense, you need to understand that DRM is really a form of security software.

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