WHAT DO INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OWNERS WANT? via bIPlog
Quote: "Civil libertarians and analysts in the computer field have long expected legal tensions about computer and Internet use to come to a head, but they expected it to happen over something overtly political: transmission of censored content, or software that could compromise computer security, or something related to cryptography...Why copyright? Why did this obscure branch of "intellectual property," this private concern of entertainment and software firms, become the most pressing public policy area of the computer field?"
Comment: Copyright/IP/DRM have been hot topics over the last several years (and will grow in 2003)...and the discussion has generally been antagonistic (content owners vs. content users). Content owners have to achieve their objectives by meeting the needs of the content users. The hard-line Disney approach can only be taken so far. Eventually the users get tired of the abuse.