Welcome to the Future of DRM Media

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."

Comments

Plenty of time...

[Laurentiu]

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.

Re:Plenty of time...

[Barto]

Yeah, and post the torrent on Suprnova.

Re:The Indiscriminator

[3terrabyte]

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!

Re:think twice about buying DVDs

[Orp]

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

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