Cory Doctorow on the real cost of free

If you want to damn someone for selling a bill of goods to creative people, go after the DRM vendors with their ridiculous claims about copy-proof files; go after the labels who say that wholesale lawsuits against fans on behalf of artists (where labels get to pocket the winnings) are good business; go after the studios who are suing to make it impossible for anyone to put independent video on the internet without a giant corporate legal budget.

Superb piece covering the ridiculous attempts by media companies to stop the unstoppable, exposing what I feel is the frightening amount of political clout they possess. To me, it's also clear that tech companies peddling DRM solutions today are no different than snake-oil salesman from a century ago.

iPad Rollout In Education Encounters DRM Hell

This is a hole in Apple's App Store infrastructure that the massive interest in iPads for education is exposing, in a way that the iPhone and iPod touch never did.

Good article on a major obstacle for rolling out iPads in the education market.