Reading my ongoing commentary about DRM, you might come to the conclusion that I'm against the whole idea of copyright. Not so much - and I think Dare Obasanjo just summarized the rationale behind copyright far better than I could - in a piece that does a take-down on TechDirt's "information wants to be free" take on the matter.

The arguments on TechDirt seem to boil down to this: "I like stealing music, so let me construct an argument that rationalizes my behavior". My anti-DRM stance is different; I think that the music industry is doing immense damage to itself by treating their entire customer base like criminals. That doesn't mean that I think we ought to live down to their theory.

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