The Real Purpose of DRM

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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Re:Gorgeous? by Weird+O'Puns · 2006-04-02 06:02 · Score: 0, Offtopic

So, you're actually some kind of lord?
Not anymore! by BumpyCarrot · 2006-04-02 06:55 · Score: 1, Offtopic

That's the last time I do anything in a backalley with a vacuum cleaner and a cock, hur hur hur...

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