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So I read this (Dutch) article about critics of the recent anti-DRM ruling in France. They try to convince everybody that such a ruling ‘threatens innovation‘. (Of course, the ‘critics’ are the companies that invested in this stuff.)

In the long run, they say, the public will get back ‘less innovation’ because of rulings like this.

Is that a threat?

See, it isn’t our fault that they’ve been betting their money on an unfair technology we all don’t want.

It isn’t our fault that these technology companies sucked-on to the media companies in order to pimp their warez.

It sure isn’t our fault that we never liked the technology and try to resist stuff like ‘vendor lock-in’. Well, at least some of us.

It sure as hell isn’t our fault that the technology companies now loose face because the media companies see that the promise they have been made, is slowly fading.

So they now conclude that innovation is threatened. I beg to differ.

As I see it, they now got to think of some other, fair way of protecting ‘intellectual property’: one that is embraced by the public — not one that the public distrusts.

Now that is innovation…

Innovation, DRM, France, Trust