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Diagram of the AP’s new Protect, Point, Pay Scheme

To add insult to injury, after studying the initial press release, Ed Felten determined that the technology AP plans to use can't actually do any of the things they claim it can!

Lest we forget, Techdirt reminds us why any strategy that depends upon DRM is doomed to fail:

This has been said before (multiple times) but you don't rescue your business model by "protecting" against what people want to do. You don't rescue your business model by wasting resources trying to hold back what people want to do. You rescue your business by providing more value and figuring out a way to monetize that value. Putting bogus DRM on news does none of that. It only hastens failure.

This is great.

Reading Lamp

Reading lamp, designed by French designers Jun Yasumoto, Alban Le Henry, Olivier Pigasse and Vincent Vandenbrouck, is wonderfully simple: it's "a lamp that shuts off when you put a book on it, and that turns on when you take your book to read it."

Hat tip to Core77.

Check out these images:

Via.

These remind me of this brilliant poster for Stanley Kubrick's 2001.