Tim Bray article on Digital Rights Management (DRM)

Tim Bray is ‘da man. In addition to Bringing Search to the Internet and inventing XML he is an extremely insightful technologist, visionary and (Vancouver) blogger. Read the excerpt below from a piece on Digital Rights Management (DRM) and then go read the rest of the article. Really good stuff.

“For example, while I was originally impressed by AppleÂ’s iTunes Music Store, itÂ’s become obvious that buying old-fashioned CDs from old-fashioned music stores is a better deal. The sound quality is higher, and what I get is just a bunch of digital files that are mine and I can store on any computer I want to and play on any device I want to and nobodyÂ’s getting in the way. (More…)”