Just because it's hard doesn't make it worth doing. - Britt Blaser

source: himself

It's often assumed that putting secret codes in music files to protect them from being copied is a way to prevent copyright infringement. But it's not really about that at all. At heart, digital rights management (DRM) is a business strategy, not a police action. And that strategy may be reaching the end of its natural life. - Nick Carr

Source: http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2006/12/curtains_for_mu.php

We are moving to a world in the 21st century in which the most important activities that produce occur not in factories and not by individual initiative but in communities held together by software (7;49) It is the infrastructural importance of software which is of primary importance in the move to the post industrial economy. . . . software provides alternative modes of infrastructure and transportation that is crucial in economic terms because the driving force in economic development is always improvement in transportation.. . ..software is creating roadways that bring people who have been far from the center of human social life to the center of that social life.... software can be used to keep software from being owned.

Now we live in a different world for the first time, all the physics all the mathematics, everything of beauty in music and the visual arts, all of literature can be given to everybody everywhere at essentially zero marginal cost beyond the cost of making the first copy.

- Eben Moglen, keynote at Plone

Source: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NorfgQlEJv8>