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What if DRM went away? Video

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What if DRM went away?
Created: 10/03/2007
Video description: Brian Cooley imagines a world without digital rights management.

What if DRM went away? Video Transcript

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>> What if DRM went away? I could buy digital music and know it'll always play. Hmm, where's the excitement in that? What would DRM companies do next? Run prisons? And I bet even Steve Jobs would say, "No...way." Boy I'd sure miss those authorization errors; Hmm, those were good times; and I'd really miss that nice guy in Bangalore, the one who works for Zuhn [assumed spelling] Marketplace support, Shock I think his name was. ^M00:00:35 [ Music ] ^M00:00:36

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