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*Digital Rights Management schemes are mediated. No form of mediation lasts forever. Ergo, the default ought to be to Gothically annihilate everything that was locked up by the DRM whenever the DRM becomes obsolete, defunct, or too expensive to run. It's like a giant cultural-suicide service.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/07/big-content-ridiculous-to-expect-drmed-music-to-work-forever.ars

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