In my latest TheFeature article, I interviewed Cory Doctorow about digital rights management as it applies to mobile phones.
TheFeature: But the ability for people to easily make and distribute copies of music and movies is new. Entertainment content providers want to protect themselves with DRM.
Doctorow: Well, locomotives didn't require horseshoes. You know, the blacksmiths might not have liked the fact that locomotives didn't require horseshoes. But if you started a business to outfit locomotives with special horseshoes in order to keep the blacksmiths happy, you probably wouldn't have lasted very long. Likewise, if you're starting a business to outfit phones with special locks that make it hard to copy things in order to make the music industry happy, then you're probably not long for this world.
