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

Re:Mercy mine.

[Cro Magnon]

Last time I looked, there was no law saying I had to buy their crap. And no matter how much money they throw at the politicians, such a law would never even be considered, since such a person would quickly be voted out of office.

Re:Remember - DVD's are not a necessity

[doublem]

By ripping those CDs and playing the resulting MP3s you have violated the "fair use" doctrine. Legal proceedings are already underway.

The RIAA.