Why Digital Rights Management Is Bad For Us: Microsoft Gets Briefed

If you want to understand why copyright issues and the focus on digital rights management has created so much fuss and such a clear stand-off of end users to the future secure content distribution strategy heralded by Microsoft this is an absolute must-read. This is the full written version of a talk delivered by Cory Doctorow to the Microsoft's Research Group last Thursday June the 17th at their Redmond offices.