ZDNet: The DRM Grinch That Stole Christmas

As I continue to ponder some of the many issues that surround DRM, this article from David Berlind on ZDNet fuels some more thinking. He raises great points about the many issues facing consumers and the real tangled mess this whole issue is on that front.

Berlind is correct that the only way to stop the madness is for consumers to stop buying the technology, but the confusion in the marketplace works very well to keep the machine humming along down its twisted path.

Berlind also has another post talking about The Day Broadcast Died.

Wrote Steve Rubel of the development, "Someone has figured out a way to subscribe to TV shows on Bit Torrent and pull them down as an RSS feed."  In other words, once a TV show is digitized and loaded into Bittorrent, not only are the broadcasters completely disintermediated from the distribution of their content, so too is their adverstising business model. 

Things are mighty interesting.