Cory Doctorow And EFF Aim To “Eradicate DRM In Our lifetime”

"It's the difference between 'Yes, master' and 'I CAN'T LET YOU DO THAT DAVE."  The Electronic Frontier Foundation announced Tuesday that Boing Boing's Cory Doctorow has been commissioned to tackle digital rights management technologies (DRM) that the rights group says threatens security, privacy, and undermines public rights and innovation.

The group said Tuesday that Doctorow, a vocal DRM opponent, is to become a special consultant for what the group is calling the Apollo 1201 Project, "a mission to eradicate DRM in our lifetime."  Doctorow, the EFF's former European affairs coordinator and current Boing Boing editor, said in a statement:

Apollo was a decade-long plan to do something widely viewed as impossible: go to the moon. Lots of folks think it's impossible to get rid of DRM.  But it needs to be done. Unless we can be sure that our computers do what we tell them, and don't have sneaky programs designed to take orders from some distant corporation, we can never trust them. It's the difference between 'Yes, master' and 'I CAN'T LET YOU DO THAT DAVE.'
The EFF explains the many ways DRM serves as an annoyance, if not an outright hindrance to your ability to enjoy the content you've lawfully purchased...