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November 11, 2005 ( politics )

The RIAA/MPAA-friendly Bush regime chides Sony's use of a rootkit to "protect" their CDs as going too far:

Stewart Baker, the Department of Homeland Security's policy czar warned would-be DRM makers: 'It's very important to remember that it's your intellectual property -- it's not your computer. And in the pursuit of protection of intellectual property, it's important not to defeat or undermine the security measures that people need to adopt in these days.'

More at WaPo and Slashdot

Posted by griffjon at November 11, 2005 03:46 PM

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