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Interesting article, but hard to tell where it was going.

Turned out to be about how DRM is a bad idea. I'm not sure what the title has to do with the article though....

This is an excerpt from his new book; the article headline is the book's title. I agree this is not a good title for this excerpt.

Later his argument goes "Information doesn't want to be free--people do" and this story is just one bit of supporting evidence.

Is he not going on about data and not information, given data is not interpreted and information in interpreted data into meaningfulness. Hence DRM data bits are data and not until the DRM is removed do they become information.

data and information is synonymous, isn't it? Of course, DRM data is not the information in which we are interested in the end.

DRM is a format, if you will. DRM data is what's formated in the format, retreival of data in a format is information. Information, like they say about security, is a process.

He didn't make up the phrase "information wants to be free," it's something that was said a lot when mp3 piracy first took off in earnest. Even if the literal meaning is quite more general, when someone writes this chances are they mean it in connection to media and DRM.

Mr. Doctorow is why I stopped reading BoingBoing. If you are familiar with his work this is not a-typical.

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