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Protecting Your DRM Rights

Posted by Hemos on from the gettin'-covered dept.

A reader wrote to say:"There's an article on SiliconValley.com that talks about a new bill in Congress that will, if passed, mean that consumers can copy CDs, DVDs and other digital works for personal use, just as they now do with TV shows and audio tapes."

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  1. finally by sssmashy · · Score: 0, Redundant
    ``The laws that have passed in recent years have imbalanced the historical balance between owners of copyrighted works and users of copyrighted works,'' Boucher said in an interview Tuesday. ``The balance has been tilted dramatically in favor of owners at the expense of users.''

    Finally, a politician with the sense to speak the simple, obvious truth. Hallelujah

  2. echo? by nomso · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Is it just me, or did I just read this earlier?

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  3. Re:Nice, but.... by elmegil · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Most of the local musicians I know are more than happy to share MP3's. If someone likes one song they hear as an MP3, they're likely to go looking for more, probably on CD. CD certainly is a lot more convenient for much of the world that's not geeks who spend all their time in front of their hard drives....

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  4. DRM is about control of individual property by gentry · · Score: 0, Redundant
    I keep reading this DRM stuff. Yeah, it mean Joe Blow can't pirate his music, or download the latest film via Kazaa, but at the end of the day it's EMI's, AOL TW's, Fox's etc. property. How they choose to disemminate it is up to them.
    You don't like it? Don't give them your money.

    How would you feel if you knew hundreds of thousands of people where ripping of your stuff?