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DRM: How To Boil A Frog
symbolic writes "This article on the Register explains their experience with Creative's first attempt at supporting DRM, and also reviews a sneaky little technique for 'easing' DRM into peoples' lives via a free Costello preview CD. Two of the tracks are free from any DRM, but for the two that are DRM-enabled, you have to activate the right to listen to them (up to four times), by accessing a central server via the net. For those in the know, the doublespeak used to inform users of any actions they need to take to enable their DRM rights might be quite amusing. To wit: 'The content you are accessing requires an additional level of security. In order to play it, you will need to update your Digital Rights Management Installation.' Others, however, will think they're getting something, when they're actually having something taken away from them. It's a matter of time to see if consumers will flat-out reject this new 'enabling' technology, or let it seep into and infect their lives like the disease that it is."
Taxes?
Television?
Cars?
Religeon?
Bank fees?
Hell, lets just throw it all away!
Yeah, that's right. Click on this big block of text and access my website. Why? Because I told you to, and you're obviously fucking bored out of your mind to be browsing at -1. Click click clicky click on this blockkkkkkkkkkkkkk of text!
I'm a little teapot. I also eat frogs.
We know Costello sux0rs, so we don't care!!!
Take your ugly little font and go the fuck home. Fucker.
Don't use *BSD Don't hack *BSD Don't pay for *BSD Don't do anything with *BSD As soon as it's known that *BSD content doesn't make money it will tank faster than advertising DRM.
Mod Parent up 3/Insightful, I agree, this is a very good point that has been little brought up.
This story about boiling frogs is what you should find. It's not about ACTUALLY boiling frogs, it's metaphorically speaking.
"Sneaking software onto unsuspecting user's PC's..."
One word: AOL
"The Rolling Stones" is a Heinlein book.
...and now it's dying in complacency. How appropriate.
They don't hate people.
They just love money.
And power.
I don't pretend to understand the fashions of my generation, but that doesn't make people who wear their pants low idiots.
No, Your lack of understanding doesn't make them idiots. The fact that I can see their underwear in Jack in the Box makes them idiots. Your lack of abilities WRT English grammar makes you an idiot. Go back to class.