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DRM Helmet

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the your-helmet-is-so-big dept.

prostoalex writes "In his weblog on O'Reilly Network Gordon Mohr suggests the ultimate solution for the music and movie industry to plug that analog hole. The solution, of course, is a helmet with built-in Digital Rights Management system that would automatically "fog up" any time you lay your eyes on something that you haven't bought license for."

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  1. Artist's rendition by Fantanicity · · Score: 0, Troll

    An artist's rendition of what the new helmet looks like.

    (Picture is copyright (c) 2002 Eric Grantham)

  2. Like I want to see this shit? by crovira · · Score: 1, Troll

    Why the fuck would I want my reality mediated by some xxAA hacks?

    I'd just take off the fuckin' helmet and go into the world humming my own music and seeing what I want to see.

    This attempt to control everything didn't work for the Caesars, Vercingetorix, Bodecia, the Louis, the Plantagenets, Napoleon, Metternicks, Hitler, Stalin [name your tyrant here] and their vision was less metastacized than that of the xxAAs.
    I've already unplugged and I ain't dead or anything and I ain't paying the xxAAs a fuckin' cent. And I'm neither blind or deaf.

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