China strikes a blow for electronic freedom...

[-jeffB]

...the freedom, that is, to copy content without digital rights management:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ft/fto010520062025182495

Hey, I know! Instead of trying to sneak anti-Chinese-government propaganda past the country's Internet filters, let's start charging for it. China will immediately start encouraging trade in pirated copies.

[Marcos Malo]

I think you're on to something. What if, instead of DRM, the media companies started "hiding" copies of various subversive documents (such as the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, John Stuart Mill's On Liberty, etc.) in movies and music.

[Refurbvirgin]

Like jobs, our attempts to offshore democracy have led to its loss at home. Why do we have to hide the Bill of Rights? Why not just give it to them? We're not using it anymore anyway.

I have to go now. My door just go kicked in.