Quote of the week
From Mozilla Europe CEO Tristan Nitot via Techcrunch:
“I don’t think DRM has a future. Treating your customers like thieves is bad business practice. Today the customer is not ‘king’, they are considered thief first….It is stupid to think that the key to a DRM system won’t leak. So if it becomes more painful for a legitimate customer to use a product than it is for the pirates then that’s a problem.”
I love the pure simplicity of the concept expressed here. It’s the 30,000-foot view of all the noise about copyright, and it expresses the hopeless foolishness of all the legal maneuvering we’re reading about these days.
