My new column for SecurityFocus is out, & you guys will probably find it interesting & useful.
You can read it at: http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/390 Title: "The big DRM mistake" Blurb: "Digital Rights Managements hurts paying customers, destroys Fair Use rights, renders customers' investments worthless, and can always be defeated. Why are consumers and publishers being forced to use DRM?" Call out: "When I realized that I couldn't copy text out of The Complete New Yorker, I felt like a sucker - a sucker that had been conned by the same people to whom I willingly gave my money. As a college instructor, I especially thought of the loss to my students..." I hope you enjoy it. Scott -- R. Scott Granneman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ www.granneman.com Full list of publications: http://www.granneman.com/publications My new book on Firefox: Don't Click on the Blue E! Info at: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/bluee/ Read the Open Source Blog: http://opensource.weblogsinc.com Join GranneNotes! Information at www.granneman.com "Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof." ---Ashley Montague _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
