Authors:
Steven Pemberton
I was at a conference recently where a speaker was describing his company's product plans, which included digital music, and how much money and effort his company was expending on copyright protection to make it hard to copy copyrighted material, and to enable tracking down the culprits when they did. This is stupid. It is stupid for two reasons: firstly because all money spent on policing (and that is usually not a small sum) is wasted profit, and secondly because they should want to have as many people possible copying their works: it should be as easy as possible.…
You must be a member of SIGCHI, a subscriber to ACM's Digital Library, or an interactions subscriber to read the full text of this article.
GET ACCESS
Join ACM SIGCHIIn addition to all of the professional benefits of being a SIGCHI member, members get full access to interactions online content and receive the print version of the magazine bimonthly.
Subscribe to the ACM Digital Library
Get access to all interactions content online and the entire archive of ACM publications dating back to 1954. (Please check with your institution to see if it already has a subscription.)
Subscribe to interactions
Get full access to interactions online content and receive the print version of the magazine bimonthly.
Post Comment
No Comments Found