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The HTML that says no - Joi Ito's pitch for a theft-free web

 
But it's Creative Commons, not DRM DLD09   Joi Ito has a recipe for a world without DRM - cunningly, it's software that stops you doing stuff you're not allowed to. Simple, yes? In the future world according to Ito, every object on the Internet will have licensing and copyright information attached to it, machine will talk to machine, and machine will overrule you if you're accidentally about to swipe something.… (link)

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