Freedom to Tinker

This site has started an in depth discussion about business models and DRM. After an undisclosed number of additional chapters the script will become an academic paper and the writers, Alex and Ed are seeking peer review by inviting comments from their readers.

Not only is the paper pretty interesting (this “first release” aims to contextualise future section of the article) but the comments are full of indepth analysis too.

The writers introduce the script themselves:

Alex and I are working on an academic paper, “Lessons from the Sony CD DRM Episode”, which will analyze several not-yet-discussed aspects of the XCP and MediaMax CD copy protection technologies, and will try to put the Sony CD episode in context and draw lessons for the future. We’ll post the complete paper here next Friday. Until then, we’ll post drafts of a few sections here. We have two reasons for this: we hope the postings will be interesting in themselves, and we hope your comments will help us improve the paper.