Information for the Layman (tags)
"It's usually just ambition that puts them into it--and like any group of people selected for ambition and nothing else, they turn out to be a pretty bad lot. Like mandarins in China, colonial administrators in the British Empire, lawyers in old North America ... --individually there are decent people who do some good, but as a class they are amoral, vicious leeches with a good cover story." A Million Open Doors, John Barnes, (Tor Books (paper), New York, N.Y., 1992), p. 138
Can the Digital Hub Survive Hollywood? (tags)
If you can ignore some of the Mac boosterism, there's some serious info about Hollywood and their goals of preventing people from copying their digital data.