Boston Public Library. What can be done about problems with digital restrictions management DRM?...

By theszak on Wed, 03/05/2008 - 5:34am

We've been contacted by the BPL about making arrangements to
discuss the problems with digital restrictions management
DRM and what might be done about it
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Isn't saying "digital

By riggs on Wed, 03/05/2008 - 9:48am.

Isn't saying "digital restrictions management DRM" redundant? It looks odd to me, at least.

Additionally...

By stephencaldwell on Wed, 03/05/2008 - 9:53am.

I thought DRM stood for Digital Rights Management.

Depends if you're for it or against it

By Ron Newman on Wed, 03/05/2008 - 12:46pm.

People who are against DRM prefer to call it 'Restrictions' rather than 'Rights'.

Zak is not a friend of punctuation

By Gareth on Wed, 03/05/2008 - 9:55am.

Ideally, it would be "Digital Rights Management (DRM)," but Zak is not a friend of punctuation. Lousy writing skills is one of the reasons nobody takes him seriously.

Perhaps we should be bar Zak

By stephencaldwell on Wed, 03/05/2008 - 10:04am.

Perhaps we should bar Zak from posting any more stories until he demonstrates an ability to construct a story that people actually want to read.

His posts thus far are probably really important, but no one cares enough to read the entire post because it's like trying to read the novel in one's alphabet soup and the issue goes ignored by the UH community.