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July 2001

The DVD Rebellion

You can't hold good information down. But in its heavy-handed efforts to protect copyright, the movie industry doesn't get it.

By Simson Garfinkel

Buy a copy of the matrix on DVD and take it home. Play it on a Mac or on a Windows PC and you're in for a pretty good time. But play it on a PC running the Linux operating system, and the movie industry says that you're breaking the law.

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