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2 great analyses of the Associated Press’s plans to be the RIAA of news

Pat Thornton writes on AP’s plans to stop people sharing news content… DRM always works like this: It never stops people who really want to steal or break the law, but it almost always hinders law abiding, paying customers. Will this extra layer of code eat up CPU cycles and RAM, bring computers to a halt and not even work
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