I replied in public, telling him that he'd misunderstood. This wasn't an issue of ideological purity - it was about good reviewing practice. *Wired* was telling readers to buy a product because it had features x, y and z, but at any time in the future, without warning, without recourse, the vendor could switch off any of those features:
https://memex.craphound.com/2004/12/29/cory-responds-to-wired-editor-on-drm/
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