Associated Press quietly nukes its dumber-than-dumb DRM-for-news system

Do you remember the Associated Press’s 2009 announcement that they had discovered a magic-beans technology that would let them stop people from quoting the news unless they paid for license f…

via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2013/05/18/associated-press-quietly-nukes.html

Since the launch… we heard absolutely nothing about NewsRight. There was a launch, with its newspaper backers claiming it was some huge moment for newspapers, and then nothing.