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This is an excerpt from his new book; the article headline is the book's title. I agree this is not a good title for this excerpt. Later his argument goes "In
by IvyMike 12y ago
This is an excerpt from his new book; the article headline is the book's title. I agree this is not a good title for this excerpt.
Later his argument goes "Information doesn't want to be free--people do" and this story is just one bit of supporting evidence.
- Zenst 12y agoIs he not going on about data and not information, given data is not interpreted and information in interpreted data into meaningfulness. Hence DRM data bits are data and not until the DRM is removed do they become information.
- vegedor 12y agodata and information is synonymous, isn't it? Of course, DRM data is not the information in which we are interested in the end. DRM is a format, if you will. DRM data is what's formated in the format, retreival of data in a format is information. Information, like they say about security, is a process.
- foobarian 12y agoHe didn't make up the phrase "information wants to be free," it's something that was said a lot when mp3 piracy first took off in earnest. Even if the literal meaning is quite more general, when someone writes this chances are they mean it in connection to media and DRM.