CBS Abusing DRM to Stifle Commentary
Ed Felten reports that CBS has re-issued its report with stronger DRM around the PDF, preventing copying and pasting text from the document.
This is yet another use of DRM that has nothing to do with copyright infringement. Nobody who wanted to copy the report as a whole would do so by cutting and pasting -- the report is enormous and the whole thing is available for free online anyway. The only plausible use of cut-and-paste is to quote from the report in order to comment, which is almost certainly fair use.
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