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Welcome to the Future of DRM Media

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Plenty of time... by Laurentiu · · Score: 5, Funny

    From the article: That agreement, amongst other things, stated that I could only play back the content for a period of five days, on the computer I installed the InterActual Player application onto, after which I had to re-acquire a license.

    Plenty of time to make a "fair use" DivX copy. And share it on BitTorrent just out of spite.

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    1. Re:Plenty of time... by Barto · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yeah, and post the torrent on Suprnova.

  2. Horror story by reaper · · Score: 2, Funny

    Seirously, this isn't a horror story... it's shady marketing. A horror story would be if it required him to install a 3rd party application which broke/uninstalled the rest of his stuff, and then it went outside, keyed his car, then poured arsenic on his lawn.... because the player's development office was built on top of an INDIAN BURIAL GROUND!

    I get the rights when this gets on the big screen.

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  3. Warning! Cheap ass hack job article ahead. by ZB+Mowrey · · Score: 1, Funny
    ftfa: As I already own a, legitimate, copy of T2, that wasn't the reason I bought the two-dvd disk set, I was looking forward to playing back the hd version, which promises the very best image quality and a great way for me to enjoy the full potential of my, hd capable, home theater installation.

    could, the author, of this article, be William Shatner, in disguise, maybe, hiding between all the, commas?

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  4. Re:The Indiscriminator by 3terrabyte · · Score: 4, Funny
    There should be an arc when the MPAA coral him into their bidding. Since he's indiscriminate, they have to try and shield him from other crimes going on in the area, and continually point him in the direction of downloaders.

    It's all foiled by issue #25, when the Indiscriminator finds the executives price fixing and lobbying senators illegally. Things get a bit crazy in the D.C. issue, taking him straight to the White House!

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  5. Re:think twice about buying DVDs by Orp · · Score: 3, Funny

    Twice last year I had to tell someone what a colon was.

    It's a good thing you aren't providing support to proctologists.

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  6. Re:"Buy the movie now." False advertising? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    Wait a minute--are you implying that advertisements are lying to us just to get us to buy things?

    Dear God! When did this happen? Why was I not informed?

  7. Re:"Buy the movie now." False advertising? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Having to view sodding adverts really pisses me off.

    Just wait till your next remote comes with an "I agree" button...