Wikipedia:WikiProject United States Public Policy/Courses/Spring 2011/Politics of Piracy (Max Klein and Patrick Berger)/Schedule/6

=Anouncement=
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= Digital Rights Management Readings/Listenings=
 * Cory Doctorow. "On DRM"
 * video clip

This reading below is mostly optional, but we'll pat you on the back if you do it.
 * Pam Samuelson. UC Berkeley.
 * Toward More Sensible Anti-Circumvention Regulations

=Question=

Doctorow acknowledges that in some part people feel justified pirating music because "people feel the record industry are 'jerks'". The Publishing industry has the advantage of not being totally demonised yet. To what extent would DRM be a justified practice if it wasn't coming from 'greedy industries', or has it no legitimate purpose?