Cory Doctorow – a sci-fi author, a writer for Boing Boing, and a copyright consultant for the EFF – gave Microsoft’s research group a lecture on DRM (Digital Rights Management) – ”completley weird stuff“, as he put it.

He accuratley and humouruslly describes the history of the ”copyfight“, and tries to convince Microsoft to ditch DRMs in favour of a more open future – with Sony as an example for a corporation who succeeded in doing just that (with Betamax).

The English source of the lecture is available here: http://www.craphound.com/msftdrm.txt (along with translations to many other languages)

I translated the lecture to Hebrew, and it is available here: http://ranh.co.il/msftdrm_he.html