The 7 lessons of distribution for authors:

Quoted: 1) Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy.
2) Piracy is progressive taxation.
3) Customers want to do the right thing, if they can.
4) Shoplifting is a bigger threat than piracy.
5) File sharing networks don't threaten book, music, or film publishing. They threaten existing publishers.
6) "Free" is eventually replaced by a higher-quality paid service.
7) There's more than one way to do it.

A great essay on why piracy is not harming legitimate sales of books but DRM is...

Quoted: Electronic copyright infringement is something that can only become an "economic epidemic" under certain conditions. Any one of the following:

Quoted: 1) The products they want—electronic texts—are hard to find, and thus valuable.

Quoted: 2) The products they want are high-priced, so there's a fair amount of money to be saved by stealing them.

Quoted: 3) The legal products come with so many added-on nuisances that the illegal version is better to begin with.

Quoted: Those are the three conditions that will create widespread electronic copyright infringement, especially in combination. Why? Because they're the same three general conditions that create all large-scale smuggling enterprises.

This is funny. A group of anti-DRMers are using Amazon.com's tagging feature to tag items as "defectivebydesign."

Quoted: A weblog about pop culture

DVD Jon is a bad-ass. He's cracked version after version of the Apple Fairply DRM. Now he's settig up a company to offer it as a service to anybody that wants their content to play on Apple hardware.

Quoted: DRM-buster DVD Jon has a new target in his sights, and it’s a big piece of fruit. He has reverse-engineered Apple’s Fairplay and is starting to license it to companies who want their media to play on Apple’s devices. Instead of breaking the DRM (something he’s already done), Jon has replicated it, and wants to license the technology to companies that want their content (music, movies, whatever) to play on Apple devices. This may not be good news for iTunes the store, but it could make the iPod even more popular.

Update for JHymn and itunes 7. QTFairUse to iTunes 6.