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January 18, 2006

Boing Boing: HOWTO disable the crippleware in The Complete New Yorker. BB does an excellent job summarizing the problems, some serious and some not so serious but all deserving of public awareness, with both the DRM mechanism and the "license agreement" that comes with the Complete New Yorker. "Since when does reading a magazine require a waiver of privacy?"

I did not receive TCNYer for xmas or my birthday, so I suppose I should order my own copy. :)