The first part of my two-part article on how DRM technologies are destroying the world (slight exaggeration for dramatic effect) is up at TidBITS.com, and I’ve been linked for the first time in BoingBoing.

In case you’re not convinced to click over just yet, here’s my editorial blurb: “While attending CES last January, roving correspondent Jeff Porten realizes just how broken technology has become in the name of protecting intellectual property, causing him to ponder the societal costs of such a dependence on technology that is designed to fail.”