DRM close to home

At just $130 from Computer Geeks, a refurbished Dell Axim was too cheap to resist. Problem is, it’s a Pocket PC–with the usual copyright-related hassles. Sure enough, I wasted close to an hour because of a glitch in the “activation” process required to take advantage of various e-book freebies. And this is before the era of “secure computing”? I suspect that proponents will argue, “Oh, the technology will make it easier for you.” We’ll see.