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Letter: Stallman: Digital Restrictions Management fueled by ‘several separate conspiracies’

Published Tuesday, October 23, 2007

To the Editor:

In your article about my visit to the Yale Political Union, the photo caption got it backwards. I spoke for the resolution that Digital Restrictions Management should be illegal.

The article said I spoke of “a corporate conspiracy” to impose Digital Restrictions Management (DRM). In fact I mentioned several separate DRM conspiracies.

For instance, the scheme that requires all BluRay and HD-DVD players to restrict the user is called AACS; the AACS conspiracy has a Web site, aacsla.com, which lists the founding members of the conspiracy and states the...

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