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The world has a lot of problems right now — Iraq, impending environmental collapse, the Genesis reunion — that make the sticky matter of consumer rights in the digital marketplace look petty in comparison. As far as I know, digital rights management never came up as an issue in any campaigns this year; none of the candidates on the ballot I marked up this morning seemed to have strong opinions about it. Granted, I was mostly concerned with which candidates were willing to start open warfare with the corrupt motherfuckers currently in power, and I realize that when it comes to DRM a) it’s not a big enough deal for most people even bother with, and b) probably only a couple of them know enough about technology to even be able to make a coherent argument one way or another. But it’s still an issue to a lot of people, including me.
