What’s wrong with DRM? Let me count the ways

Boing Boing: White Wolf’s last copyright debacle: DRM disaster. Great list of something like 13 different problems with a product using the simple DRM in Acrobat files, plus a jillion bad PR moves by the firm producing the DRM’d content trying to defend their DRM.

Second most stupid use of DRM ever, after the inexplicable decision to DRM a CD by a new act like Tsar that stands to lose the least and benefit the most from file-sharing.

OPML roadshow

Looks like Dave is taking his new OPML outliner application on the road. Yesterday New York (with visit from John Sculley), tomorrow Berkman. I hope to be there tomorrow night.

Mostly I’m excited at the prospect of a decent Internet aware Windows outliner.

And yeah, much more excited about the demo than I am about the Boston Macworld going on this week. And will remain in that balance of excitement until Apple starts announcing product at Boston Macworld. (Though it would have been nice to meet Adam Engst, Andy Ihnatko, and the great Rob Griffiths.