So I had to do a double take when I first saw news about this paper popping up on ARS Technica and other sites. After reading through it I think it’s patently clear that the author means well but has cloaked her results in an overly verbose and academic wrapper. The title alone is a mouthful: Technological accommodation of conflicts between freedom of expression and DRM, the first empirical assessment by Patrícia Akester, Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge.