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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. DRM by springbox · · Score: 0, Redundant

    You know something is bad when even the advocates hate it

  2. Well.. by venicebeach · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I do see the irony here, but he's not really contradicting himself. His point in the original article was that simply because some implementations of DRM are poorly done and make it unecessarily hard for the user does not mean that *all* DRM is bad. He gives the example of iTunes music store as a relatively acceptable form of DRM. So his current gripe is that microsoft's DRM technology falls into the first category - poorly done DRM that prevents legitimate use.

    We may disagree with his analysis ( I do ) but he is not being inconsistent.