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Who Wouldn't Want to be Pre-Breakup AT&T
A couple of days ago, on Wednesday, BoingBoing linked (Savage, Brilliant Essay on DRM) to another anti-DRM piece from LinuxJournal (EOF - If You Don't Believe in DRM, It Can't Hurt You). It's an okay article, but it ended with a strange scenario,
And when even a PC operating system can be an 'essential facility' to be regulated on antitrust grounds, DRM that actually worked would be too much power for governments to let anyone else have. Win the DRM war, and the prize is becoming a regulated industry like the pre-breakup AT&T.
Well, the pre-breakup AT&T was a very profitable and safe business to be in for several decades. What company wouldn't want to step into AT&T's pre-breakup shoes? Beats having to compete.
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Ernest Miller pursues research and writing on cyberlaw, intellectual property, and First Amendment issues. Mr. Miller attended the U.S. Naval Academy before attending Yale Law School, where he was president and co-founder of the Law and Technology Society, and founded the technology law and policy news site LawMeme. He is a fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School.
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1. Don Marti on June 13, 2005 11:35 AM writes...
Followup on why being AT&T isn't good enough and other DRM-related issues.
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