DRM makes it damned hard on the disabled

Joe Clark has written a very good white-paper on the accessibility implications of Digital Rights Management technology. Summary: DRM makes it damned hard on the disabled.

For all accessibility "tracks" (captions or subtitles, or dubbing or audio-description recordings), DRM may prevent you from doing the following:

* Scanning or monitoring the tracks.
* Downloading them.
* Posting or publishing them, including doing so in online fora like the Web, mailing lists, or newsgroups.
* Rewriting, redoing, or re-creating them

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