[p2p-research] Fwd: [fcforum] Fw: iPad DRM is a dangerous step backward. Sign the petition!

[Kevin Carson]

On 1/29/10, Ryan Lanham <rlanham1963 at gmail.com> wrote:

> If a DRM intensive model is attractive to the marketplace, then P2P
> designers are doing something wrong.

Maybe so.  Maybe what they're doing wrong is assuming that IP is in
any way legitimate and that they should "compete" with the proprietary
conent model in a legal framework defined by the latter.  Maybe their
first priority should be to make it cheap, easy, user-friendly and as
low-risk as possible to pirate and distribute proprietary content, and
design a reader that makes it easy to access such content at a low
price.

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