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Beastie Boys Respond to DRM Claims

Posted by michael on from the didn't-do-nothin' dept.

An anonymous reader notes that the Beastie Boys have responded to claims that their new album is DRM-crippled; their response is that the US and UK versions aren't crippled, and the DRM software is only installed in RAM, not on disk. See our previous story for background.

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  1. Does it work on Linux? by thenextpresident · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I live up in Montreal, Canada, and I was actually at a store yesterday, and went to buy their CD, until I noticed the big text on the CD saying it was copy-protected. Anyways, I looked on the back, and it said it only ran on Windows or Mac. So, in the end, I didn't buy the CD because of that big text saying it was copy-protected.

    Will the CD play on Linux? I am all for buying their CD, but I will NOT buy a CD I can't play at work or at home.

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    1. Re:Does it work on Linux? by Epistax · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Did you know that you can take your CD Rom, only plug in the power supply (no IDE), and if the cd rom isn't crap (if it has more than one button, unlike my current one, and has a headphone jack) you can play the CD? Again, that's without the connect to the computer at all. I did this back home for fun since I had an extra power supply. (The supply didn't require a motherboard connection to turn on.)

  2. So.. by t_allardyce · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Are they admitting themselves that the DRM is totally crap and easily by-passed and that most rippers will easily be able to get this on the P2P networks thus defeating the entire purpose of the system because now only clue-less users will be stopped by it and its mainly these clue-less users who wish to honestly copy the CD for fair-use reasons?

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  3. Torrent by barcodez · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The first torrent of this album was uploaded to the most famous of the torrent sites on the 4th June. This DRM thing is obviously pointless. What's the point DRMing in one market and not another - the Internet doesn't respect physical boundaries.

    If I was feeling cynical I would think they are just doing this for publicity.

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  4. Re:You gotta fight for your right by WhatAmIDoingHere · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The problem is the people who take that same "who cares" attitude about the RIAA. People who take the "who cares" attitude about p2p or even their computers.

    I was having a discussion at a family party just the other week, and was shocked to hear my GRANDMOTHER talking about how "EVIL the RIAA is" (her words). I asked her what she was talking about, and she said that the commercials where they force the children to admit to being criminals is wrong. That got my aunts asking me where to get music from. Some wanted a legal way of doing it (I got one aunt setup with iTunes) and some wanted a free way of doing it.

    More and more people are noticing the RIAA and more and more people are getting sick and tired of it.

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