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DRM Advocate Violates DRM

Posted by Zonk on from the i-don't-like-you-either dept.

Alsee writes "A year and a day after arguing DRM was good for business, acceptable to consumers, and necessary in today's world, JupiterMedia VP and Research Director Michael Gartenberg comes face to face with DRM reality, downloads a circumvention tool, violates DRM, and blogs about his MS Reader DRM issues being solved ... permanently. Perhaps now he would be interested in the EFF Action Center where Americans can quickly and easily ask your Representative to co-sponsor the Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act."

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  1. Oh god... by KD5YPT · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... such an irony. Its like advocating for death penalty and finds yourself in a electric chair with the executioner asking you "Medium Rare or Well done?"

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    1. Re:Oh god... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      From his blog:

      "While DRM is a necessary evil, the notion of not being able to de-activate an older machine with a limited number of installs is user hostile at worst. Good case study for firms on HOW NOT TO IMPLEMENT DRM solutions."

      He appears to hail from the "Medium Rare" school of self-execution.

    2. Re:Oh god... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny
      SPOILER WARNING!

      I don't see how it could be possible to spoil a Harry Potter book. Don't they come pre-spoiled from the factory?

  2. teh forumla by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    1. force drm down our throats
    2. circumvent drm to do it
    3. ????????
    4. profit!!!

    1. Re:teh forumla by wfberg · · Score: 3, Funny


      DRM's more or less open goal is to prevent "casual theft" in the form of playground CD swapping, but it's much easier to sue someone who took deliberate, non-obvious steps to circumvent a protection than sueing someone who just copied something. For infringers, it takes away the "oops I didn't know it was forbidden" excuse.

      Just like AOL subscribers have caught on to using "a softwares" like Winzip to unzip zip files, they'll ask how to get programs to play "thier" files even though they keep annoyingly asking to "aquice a lisnce", and people will point the to un-drm utilities with just a big fat "crack" button.

      These people will still have no clue.

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  3. this probably is not the only guy doing this. by Capt.+Caneyebus · · Score: 2, Funny

    this probably is not the only guy doing this. It is just like celebrities that tell you to not do drugs, right after they finish clearing the bong. I really wouldn't be surprised if Bionic Bill himself has violated DRM at some point in time.

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  4. Priceless by Imidazole · · Score: 3, Funny

    Advocating and promoting the use of DRM - $1,000,000
    Blogging about your own circumvention of it - $10

    Getting caught in the act, and ridiculed by the millions that view Slashdot - Priceless.

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  5. Re:So can we report him... by Jherek+Carnelian · · Score: 2, Funny

    Finally, a GOOD use for the DMCA... putting people behind bars that support the DMCA.

    Too late, I've already patented that use.

  6. One useful link for you. by SharpFang · · Score: 2, Funny


    https://tips.fbi.gov/

    Let him get the taste...

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  7. Re:He was right then, and he's right now. by centauri · · Score: 4, Funny

    This begs the question

    No, it doesn't.

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  8. Your Prize is Waiting, Michael by Nom+du+Keyboard · · Score: 2, Funny
    Your prize is waiting, Michael Gartenberg. You have just won a No Expenses Spared date with Hilary Rosen and her MP3 player.

    You can both discuss common life experiences together -- like hypocrisy!

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  9. Re:He was right then, and he's right now. by starling · · Score: 3, Funny

    The phrase has been so mis-used that it has, in affect, come to loose it's meaning.

  10. Re:He was right then, and he's right now. by Moofie · · Score: 2, Funny

    "work after the content is public domain"

    Hah. That's a good one. Don't hold your breath...

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  11. Re:Interesting Piece of Legislation... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    That link now redirects to a Russian site. However, the name of the program is rather funny: c-lit or clit, which stands for Convert LIT. You can Google it and it's available in source code format. It even compiles on my Mac OS X. Despite what he said, MS Reader is not required to convert LIT files. The problem is, when you Google for "clit" what you get is mostly something else...