DRM Critique Airs On National Public Radio

An anonymous reader writes to point out that a critique of Digital Rights Management made it onto the mainstream media this morning. NPR's Marketplace Morning Report ran a piece noting that with the demise of the VHS format we risk losing fair-use rights since we now have only digital media. From the article: "As our country moves forward to regulate digital copying, I urge us all to bear in mind T. S. Eliot's famous saying. 'Good poets borrow; great poets steal.'"

The DMCA became law in 1998

[troll -1]

Thank you, Rip Van Winkle.

A thousand Slashdot readers curse T.S. Eliot....

[ElBuf]

Good poets borrow; great poets violate copyright, which is nothing like stealing!!!

Re:demise of vhs? wtf?

[the_humeister]

I still have an 8-track player and a whole collection of tunes on 8-track tape. And silly people kept saying 8-track was dying...

Great Bootlegs...

[__aaclcg7560]

Good poets borrow; great poets steal.

Maybe that's why the underground economy in China is so great.

See, This is What Happens...

[Bob9113]

Now do you see? Now do you understand why we have to get rid of this particular evil? This simply cannot be allowed to survive, because it is standing in the way of progress.

As long as we continue to have media outlets that are not owned by corporations, we will continue to have reports like this that fail to toe the corporatist line. Were it not for NPR, reports like this, critical of DRM, would be relegated to the backwater of Internet blogs and college-town weeklies. We have failed to completely destroy NPRs credibility as a media outlet despite our constant efforts. We must stamp it out altogether, or face continued non-corporate-approved reporting.

Good poets borrow...

[Anonymous Coward]

As I always say. Good poets borrow; great poets steal.

Re:Missed it.

[Anonymous Coward]

"Sure, you'll have all types of mix-ins and exciting mashups and derivative works for the first few years, but who is going to invest in the next Star Wars?"

If the death of copyright means that the like of Episodes 1 & 2 will never occur again, I'm probably okay with that.

Re:Mainstream Media?

[StikyPad]

Likewise, I'd describe ambiguous inapplicable analogies with no supportive statements the same way that I would describe fruit.

Re:Remember one thing.

[NDPTAL85]

It might help to get your message across if you could inject some actual emotion, perhaps rage, into your comments next time. Your post was so completely devoid of personal feeling that I wonder if you even mean what you said.