Associated Press claims to have discovered magic anti-news-copying beans – Boing Boing:
A lot of copyfighters were mystified by the Associated Press’s recent announcement (complete with a bonkers diagram straight off a bottle of Dr. Bronner’s) that they had spent millions of dollars on a DRM system for news that would limit how you could paste the text you copied from your browser window.
This is a seeming impossibility, and while there will always be DRM vendors with impossible magic beans to sell to any panicked goofball media dinosaur who’ll buy them, it just seemed too weird to think that no one at the AP had said, “Wait, what? This is dumb.”