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

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

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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