Copyriot Pt.1

clipped from copyriot.se Copyriot Multiplication can produce powerful numbers clipped from copyriot.se DRM was a failed attempt to implement social relations technologically, in a very inflexible, black-and-white way: Either you can make a copy, or you can’t. What’s left when the copyright industries one after one are giving up that approach, are a whole set of more subtle ways of enforcing copyright on a technological level: as standards and protocols, as traffic shaping and graphical user interfaces, as the bundling of bugs with features. Rather than saying a straight yes or no, these methods operate as an universal modulation (to use a term employed by Deleuze in his discussion of the “societies of control”).