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However, DRM is usually disliked by consumers, as it makes it difficult to use their purchased media. For example, if they buy a new computer, there's no guarantee that their DRM-covered media will be usable on the new computer. Thus, [[Black Hat]] is suggesting to the pro-DRM organizations {{w|Sony}}, {{w|Microsoft}}, the {{w|Motion Picture Association of America}} (MPAA), the {{w|Recording Industry Association of America}} (RIAA), and {{w|Apple Inc.|Apple}} that they stop their DRM-fiddling and lobbying, and he'll stop his inexorable ice-wall. However, the "ice-wall" in question is a glacier, which moves much too slowly to be a threat to any of the organizations.{{Citation Needed}} (Alternatively, Black Hat is in fact controlling the wall of ice to make it move quickly enough to be a threat to these organizations, in which case forcing them to eliminate DRM would be little trouble for someone with such immense power at his disposal.) | However, DRM is usually disliked by consumers, as it makes it difficult to use their purchased media. For example, if they buy a new computer, there's no guarantee that their DRM-covered media will be usable on the new computer. Thus, [[Black Hat]] is suggesting to the pro-DRM organizations {{w|Sony}}, {{w|Microsoft}}, the {{w|Motion Picture Association of America}} (MPAA), the {{w|Recording Industry Association of America}} (RIAA), and {{w|Apple Inc.|Apple}} that they stop their DRM-fiddling and lobbying, and he'll stop his inexorable ice-wall. However, the "ice-wall" in question is a glacier, which moves much too slowly to be a threat to any of the organizations.{{Citation Needed}} (Alternatively, Black Hat is in fact controlling the wall of ice to make it move quickly enough to be a threat to these organizations, in which case forcing them to eliminate DRM would be little trouble for someone with such immense power at his disposal.) | ||
| β | The title text refers readers to law professor {{w|Lawrence Lessig}}'s book | + | The title text refers readers to law professor {{w|Lawrence Lessig}}'s book '{{w|Free Culture (book)|Free Culture}}'. |
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