The harm being caused by DRM, and those with their heads In the sand

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  Using Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) to lock down citizens is simply unethical. It strips us of our freedom to control the devices and computers we own. DRM sets a dangerous precedent for electronic monitoring of our society, and takes away the traditional rights we have had with the music and video we own.

  We don't want these handcuffs on our society!

  We have seen time and time again that DRM schemes just don't work as advertised. We are told that DRM will stop counterfeiting, but the organized crime rings responsible, continue to be unaffected by DRM. Citizens who do hand over money to purchase music and video from Big Media are the only ones penalized by DRM. Yet despite all the evidence of how quickly DRM schemes like HD-DVD and BluRay are cracked - these individuals from the technology, media, and entertainment industries still hold out hope of putting bigger handcuffs on us, or devising more complex big brother monitoring schemes. This is why they lobby for copyright extension, and legislation like the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), that makes circumventing a DRM scheme - to be in control of your computer - a crime.

  DRM hucksters keep on selling them on the idea that DRM is the answer, and because the alternative - accepting that DRM is unethical and broken, doesn't fit their desires to keep us locked to their channel, they, like the proverbial ostrich, just stick their heads in the sand and continue to lead themselves and society astray.

  But what if there was a way to guarantee that you could lock down citizens - that you could build an impregnable DRM scheme to control and monitor what we do with digital files? That all our computers could be owned by the entertainment industry. Would they do it? What about the cost to society? Would they care?

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