More work today on my article with Danny Butt for the Media & Arts Law Review, on Digital Rights Management (DRM). It's looking OK now, but I find it hard to come up with clear recommendations in this field, just because DRM has been so thoroughly misused and misdirected for so long. The mainstream music industry's belligerence just isn't going to work, no matter how many people it sues - for better or for worse, the heavy-handed police state approach to combatting copyright infringements isn't going to be more successful here than it has been in the case of prohibition of alcohol or soft drugs, civil liberties, or, hell, (continuing with the papal theme of the last month) Christianity.
