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Literally hours after its release, the Free Software Foundation already released their statement re: their general dissatisfaction with the inclusion of "digital rights management" controls in Apple's iPad operating system. They've made similar statements in the past (and then some) about the iPod touch and the iPhone platforms.

Note that "digital restrictions management" is FSF's creative misnomer of the proper term "digital rights management". Very creative indeed.

http://www.defectivebydesign.org/ipad

I bet the pic caught your attention! It's very controversial indeed! With the imminent infiltration of technology into everyone's everyday lives, the entertainment and media industries came up with an answer to the problem of piracy called digital rights management. Sounds OK at the first glance... the only problem is, the only rights protected (or managed) are theirs, not yours. You, the end user, have virtually no rights (including the ones you enjoyed previously, like the ability to tape a TV show legally).