Digital Rights Management Transcends Politics

When a corporate strategy ticks off both the left and the right, perhaps that strategy needs reconsideration.  As I related in The Blog Ahead, Sony’s DRM strategy of embedding rootkits in the CDs they sell backfired, and became a public relations disaster when the left-leaning folks at the Electronic Frontier Foundation filed a class action suit against Sony.  Now, the right-leaning folks at the Cato Institute have published “Circumventing Competition: The Perverse Consequences of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act” by Timothy B. Lee.  Anyone interested in intellectual property issues and the shifting notion of fair use should read this article. 

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