Digital-Rights-Management indeed matches Newspeak

In further replying to Ed Felten regarding Seth Schoen Makes a Doubleplusgood Point, and to my point about Restricted-Purpose Language - note the description of Newspeak matches the purpose of Digital-Rights-Management, on the intended expression side in addition to the suppression side.

That is, for Newspeak, we have:

Its vocabulary was so constructed as to give exact and often very subtle expression to every meaning that a Party member could properly wish to express, while excluding all other meanings and also the possibility of arriving at them by indirect methods.

Don't we have, exactly, for Digital-Rights-Management:

Its vocabulary was so constructed as to give exact and often very subtle expression to every business model that a content industry member could properly wish to sell access, while excluding all other access and also the possibility of arriving at them by indirect methods.

Remember, this was and will be heavily backed by law. Un-dmca codespeak doubleplusungood for the speaker.

This works, though:

Digital-Rights-Management ... the Newspeak of the 21st century.

By Seth Finkelstein | posted in copyblight | on October 20, 2002 11:49 PM (Infothought permalink) | Followups

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