DefectiveByDesign.org reports that Apples Digital Restriction Management (DRM) is obstructing legal creativity.
People sometimes think of DRM as solely a means to prevent copying, but the fact is that it directly obstructs other legitimate work.
Apple’s recent update in … Mac OS X is … disables crucial features in video-editing software.
Attempts to export videos from many applications after the update results in a DRM permissions error.
Worse yet, it is not possible to roll back to a previous version of QuickTime without doing a full operating system reinstall. The supposed system upgrades are actually people from exporting their preventingown video.
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Source: DefectiveByDesign.org
Tags: apple, defectivebydesign.org, digital restriction management, digital rights, drm, mac os x, quicktime, user rights
