A while back, a post on the Atlanta .Net Regular Guys site and a post on the Cerebral Kitchen site explored Digital Rights management and the iffy use of technology to protect IP or intellectual property.  (Here is the original post, but all comments have been lost during the transition from .Text to DasBlog).  The end result of the conversation seemed to be that everyone agreed IP requires protection but current technical implementations of digital rights management software are either completely ineffective or way to restrictive.  I just found this article where Microsoft Research seems to agree that the illegal spread of digital content is unlikely to stop, especially since it’s so easy to find what you want on the darknet – the collection of networks and other technologies that enable people to illegally share copyrighted digital files with little or no fear of detection.

— Matt Ranlett

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