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There is simply no other group of three letters that has a bigger impact on the way we use technology. DRM is the bane of your existence and you may not even know it. It was created under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act as an attempt by legislators to protect copyright holders’ wealth, as digital copying became ubiquitous. The only problem is that it was outdated in a matter of months, possibly days and, in some people’s perceptions,  instantaneously. Suddenly, all that sharing we were doing ended. But then, we couldn’t even copy our own music for ourselves. I couldn’t share that which I legally purchased with friends like we used to with mix tapes.

Thankfully, change is a brew. Check out Gizmodo’s full-coverage of the recent revisions to the act, carried out by the Librarian himself.