Welcome to the Future of DRM Media

Posted by timothy on Wednesday December 22, 2004 @02:32AM from the and-no-sneaking-in-popcorn dept.

MrFancyPants writes "'DRM, digital rights management, is quite possibly the holy grail of the music and movie industry, allowing them to control exactly how DRM protected content is used, distributed and above all can be tracked right down to the individual end user.' Hardware Analysis reports on a horror story of someone picking up a DVD recently and having to go through an agonizing process of installing DRM-enabled applications to even get it to play on his computer. If this is what the future holds, you'd better think twice about buying DVDs and other media, as you're basically at the mercy of the producer."

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Re:think twice about buying DVDs by ViolentGreen · 2004-12-22 02:45 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Every single thread. Just make a post about how stupid the masses are and get modded up. Slashdotters seem to think that they are so superior to the rest of the world. I am so tired of this arrogance.

I have never met anyone who uses a computer and doesn't realize the difference between left click, right click and double click.

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