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Intuit Drops DRM from Future Products

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the step-in-the-right-direction dept.

MisterKoffee writes "ExtremeTech has a story about Intuit dropping Product Activation and Digital Rights Management for most of its future products, including TurboTax, in response to a customer backlash."

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  1. Re:fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    You fail it, just like everything else, B307ch!

  2. Coming soon by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    TurboTax 2003: The Quickening, starring Sean Connery as the dead-but-not-really DRM engineer who must again protect Connor from having his head (Tax-)Cut off./

  3. Re:They we just trying to make us happy--honest! by kaltkalt · · Score: 3, Funny

    I dunno about you, but I'm just not satisfied with a product unless it writes shit on my boot sector. Without that 'feature' I feel like I'm getting ripped off.

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  4. Re:QuickTax 2003 (in canada) would only let... by Mannerism · · Score: 2, Funny

    I print to paper first. Then I can photocopy as many times as I want.

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  5. Oh darn by Our+Man+In+Redmond · · Score: 2, Funny

    When I first read the headline I saw " Intel Drops DRM" and I was about to do the Happy Dance on Palladium's grave.

    Well, let's hope we still get to see that headline.

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