[FYI] File swap nets will win, DRM and lawyers lose, say MS researchers

["Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/28231.html

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File swap nets will win, DRM and lawyers lose, say MS researchers  

By John Lettice  

Posted: 21/11/2002 at 15:24 GMT  

A group of Microsoft researchers, including Paul 'Mr Secure PC' 
England, has delivered a paper which concludes that all efforts to 
stop content swapping/theft - possibly even including Palladium - are 
in the long term futile. This message, particularly the bit that 
dealt with the economics of DRM-enabled versus 'clean' content, must 
have gone down a storm with the audience.  

Which, since you ask, was the Association for Computing Machinery DRM 
conference.  

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