This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.
The hacker word of the week this week is fritterware.
The feature this week is a rant digging into the risks of a proposal to the W3C for inclusion in the HTML standard, EME, which would bring DRM and all its problems to the core technology underpinning the web.
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View the detailed show notes online. You can grab the flac encoded audio from the Internet Archive.
Your discussion of CDs vs. DVD reminded me of http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/40024/why-does-stock-mac-os-x-allow-me-to-rip-cds-but-not-dvds