Digital rights management repeats old copy protection · Proposed air date:
Dr. Dave recalls buying a MiniDisc recorder for radio work and being unable to transfer his own recordings except in real time because the system assumed the content was unauthorized. He connects that frustration to early copy protected software on five and a quarter inch floppy disks, arguing that digital rights management was repeating an older mistake that punished legitimate users and backups.
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