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BBC columnist Bill Thompson warns readers that new DRM technology,
especially that found in Vista, is damaging the
freedoms that the internet was based on. "The
freedom of _expression_ that was once available to users of the Internet
Protocol is being stripped away. Our freedom to play, experiment, share
and seek inspiration from the creative works of others is increasingly
restricted so that large companies can lock our culture down for their
own profit. [...] governments and corporations around the world are
making a concerted effort to dismantle the open internet and replace it
with a regulated and regulable one that will allow them to impose an
'architecture of control.'"
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