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The Real Purpose of DRM

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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."

6 of 235 comments (clear)

  1. this is stoopid by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative

    i want more ponies and barbie
    i dont like the othe r stupid stories. :( :( :(:(((

  2. Posted March 14, 2006. by PhYrE2k2 · · Score: 2, Informative

    from TFA: Posted March 14, 2006.

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    when you see the word 'Linux', drink!
  3. Re:Gorgeous? by 1u3hr · · Score: 2, Informative

    Some more images here; though sadly the one in bikini is not her. I'm afraid on the "hot or not" scale, it's "not".

  4. Re:Gorgeous? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative
    I'd hit it.

    ...What?

  5. Re:Meta-commentary: "Gorgeous" really relevant? by svkal · · Score: 2, Informative

    Fair point. But if the editors do occasionally edit(though I do know that's in question), they did make a choice by leaving it in there. Furthermore, they accepted the story, so it's not unreasonable to say that they have a bit of editorial responsibility.

  6. Re:It's official: Slashdot has jumped the shark by revscat · · Score: 2, Informative

    The debate is not and never has been about whether or not she is hot. It's about how that is even relevant.