The Real Purpose of DRM

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Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday April 2, 2006 @05:35AM from the man-keeping-us-down dept.

Roberto writes "Gorgeous nerd Annalee Newitz hacked a political interpretation to recent vacuum cleaner cockfights at O'Reilly's ETech: 'Hollywood corporations have finally admitted that the real reason they built digital restriction management (DRM) software into PVRs and DVD players was to stop geeks from turning their recording devices into back-alley combat machines. You haven't seen ugly until you've watched what a DVD player without DRM can do to a TiVo.' Don't try to even think of this at home."

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Dude... by SigILL · 2006-04-02 05:37 · Score: 5, Funny

April fools day is *so* yesterday.

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1. Re:Dude... by Brandybuck · 2006-04-02 06:19 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  April Fools was yesterday. Today CowboyNeal goes off on a search for real news, only to find yesterday's fake stories. He then posts it on Slashdot.
  
  Never believe any Slashdot story on April 1st... or April 2nd.
  
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The REAL Purpose of DRM by eldavojohn · 2006-04-02 05:40 · Score: 4, Funny

A late attempt to keep the secret of printed word hidden from the peasants and the surfs.

Those uprisings do cause ever so much trouble.

-Lord Rove II

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1. Re:The REAL Purpose of DRM by randomiam · 2006-04-02 06:06 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Peasants don't surf.
2. Re:The REAL Purpose of DRM by macsox · 2006-04-02 06:17 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  ...because once the surfs get ahold of the printed word, the ink starts to run, and the pages get all soggy.
  
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Re:Gorgeous? by capt.Hij · 2006-04-02 05:44 · Score: 5, Funny

Dude! This chick just made a joke about Ubuntu *and* Gentoo users in the same sentence and then went on to disparage Red Hat users. I don't know what bug is up your nether regions, but I for one am in love. (She also discusses "USB devices." *drool*)
Re:Gorgeous? by LouisZepher · 2006-04-02 05:52 · Score: 5, Funny

In your case then, "beer holder", not "beholder".
Re:Looks... by Lispy · 2006-04-02 06:05 · Score: 5, Funny

Please don't complain that /. is not women friendly. Not after yesterday. I am still suffering. :)
digital rights management by henster29 · 2006-04-02 06:18 · Score: 3, Funny

Its rights.. not restriction
O.M.G. by QuietLagoon · 2006-04-02 06:36 · Score: 3, Funny

Is this really such a slow news day that this is news?
Re:Looks... by 91degrees · 2006-04-02 07:03 · Score: 5, Funny

Bet you're just saying that because you're ugly.
Re:Posted March 14, 2006. by PhYrE2k2 · 2006-04-02 07:41 · Score: 4, Funny

Slow news day :)
We used all the _real_ news yesterday.

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