Fwd: Insane file sharing panics from before the internet

Why oh why have we not learned to cope?

http://www.cracked.com/article_18513_5-insane-file-sharing-panics-from-before-internet.html

"Pirates are underserved customers"

Finally, even at big industry meetings, some see reason - here it it's Valve's Jason Holtman. It's basic economics, actually: Where there's demand, there is supply. Whether that supply is "legal" or "illegal" does not really matter - economics beat laws ;)

"friendly" DRM? Better than non-encumbered content? (Update 2009-01-16)

More and more money is dumped into the DRM drain... One has to wonder how a whole industry can be so misguided - then again, why should banks have a monopoly for bad ideas ;)

But why is it, that educated people are that immune against realities:

• No DRM, no restriction
• any DRM, restriction; and - if it's not a purely passive watermarking - less value

2009-01-16: And on the heels another Big Bad Idea (tm)... Sandisk wants to link flash memory to SIMs. Anyone see why such models will not be used?