Ah, ye olde (D)RM discussion again.

As long as the masses buy, they'll stay in place. And the longer they are in place, the more they become the status quo and after a while we'll forget what purchasing is, and we'll mistake it for renting. For the same price, or better, of course. And it will seem natural that we can quote a poem with source but you can't attach a sequence from a movie to an email. Or that you can show a picture of a painting to a friend, but not a picture of a picture a photographer took.

Really? Twenty bucks for a disk I can't legally play in my car? (I had to read up on it).

I miss the good old days when information was free. You know, back when an information that was published became public domain (published, get it?) and works were archived and consulted for free (minus a small fee for maintaining the archive). They were called libraries. When you had the right to quote from a poem without being technically eligible for prison.

Funny how copying prose from an article in a newspaper is considered news and copying verses from one column to the right is infringement.

Oh well. I shouldn't get started on this. Don't have all day.