The recent talk about DRM in Windows Vista has finally got people thinking about the matter in competitive terms. While Digital Rights Management does little to prevent real piracy, it largely eliminates the legal me2me fair use that we've taken for granted. Publishers and manufacturers are pushing DRM instead as a mechanism to 'lock-in' customers. Don Marti, one of a growing number of people arguing this, says in Copyfight: Isn't it time to drop the polite fiction that MSFT and other incumbent IT and CE [CE = consumer electronics--Casey] vendors are only doing DRM because of big, bad Hollywood?...

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TeleRead received its first reports of the Pepper Pad in the wild yesterday, and it kicked off some good conversation. I had replied to the post with a comment saying: The difficulty Pepper, or anybody entering this space, will face is expectations management. If people start to think about this as a "computer," rather than a toaster, then the jig is up. Sure, there are some experienced users who will use the Pepper Pad for all its linux goodness, but most users don't complain about getting root on their TV remotes or microwaves.David's response was right on when he asked for...

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