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Point: Digital Rights Management stifles music, art

Independent Party
Published Monday, October 22, 2007

DRM stands for “Digital Rights Management,” but it has as little to do with “rights” as Yale Dining Services has to do with “dining.” What “rights” does DRM manage? The rights of corporations to dictate how and when you use a file — be it a song, a movie or an operating system — that you’ve bought and own. DRM should be made illegal because it is strangling the freedom that has made the digital age the most productive and creative in history.

Opponents of DRM believe that when you buy a song or a movie, you should be able to do whatever you want with it: re-master it, edit it, even...

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