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Kevin Kelly: Better Than Free

February 2, 2008 8:26pm

"When copies are super abundant, stuff which can't be copied becomes scarce and valuable."

Doesn't a statement like that sort of claim that DRM is a good thing? I mean, the entire idea of DRM is to make things non-copyable. Similarly, a statement like that could help support the institution of laws that prevent fair-use copying and derivative works, thus "adding value" to those works.

I understand the though behind this statement, but it seems flawed on some level to me.

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