NZ government defends DRM policy
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| "DRM relies on its owners not knowing how it works and not being able
| to change how it works. If I give you a song that can only be played on
| five computers, it defeats the point if you can change that to 50,000
| computers. But the point of open source is that it is better for
| society, individuals, and competition if anyone who cares to can discover
| how her tools work, improve those tools, and publish her improvements,"
| Doctorow wrote.
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| He argued that using DRM under the policy will force New Zealanders and
| New Zealand businesses to license software to do business with government
| and force open source developers to close their source code.
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/NZ_government_defends_DRM_policy/0,130061733,339270909,00.htm
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