It's spyware, not DRM
Posted on Wednesday, January 11, 2006
at 6:35 PM (permalink)
Cory Doctorow's Boing Boing post about iTunes reporting back to Apple when it is used to play music has ignited a fire-storm. Maybe if we call it spyware instead of DRM, people will get upset enough to turn against such practices. It certainly blew up in Sony's face. What needs to be done is to find the most repugnant aspects of DRM and keep pushing them in people's faces until they get upset enough to reject it. I do know that if the public clamors for an alternative, the marketplace will provide it.
