5 Ways to promote the most controversial sequence on the Internet

Tue May 1, 2007 10:02 PM EDT

1. Print it on a tshirt, on a mousepad, on a mug. Any photo printing website will do this for you. Links at the end of the column 2. Put it in your MSN / Yahoo /Google nick . Show it to your friends, your enemies, even your uncles and aunts.

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DRM: Criminalising the consumer

Seeded on Mon Apr 30, 2007 2:52 PM EDT (The Economist)

"It is supposed to stop unauthorised copying, but no copy-protection system has yet been devised that cannot be easily defeated. All it does is make life difficult for paying customers, while having little or no effect on clandestine copying plants that churn out pirate copies."

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The Economist slams DRM

Mon Apr 30, 2007 2:48 PM EDT

In an article entitled "Criminalising the consumer" The Economist has slammed the industry for the use of DRM claiming it just doesnt work. They say "It is supposed to stop unauthorised copying, but no copy-protection system has yet been devised that cannot be easily defeated.

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