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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."

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  1. fi85t by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    very own shitter, Grandstanders, the How is the GNAA Short of a miracle so that you don't and that the fllor and financial

  2. Re:Gorgeous? by Weird+O'Puns · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So, you're actually some kind of lord?

  3. "Gorgeous Nerd" by behindthecamera · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...now THERE'S an oxymoron. ;-)

  4. Not anymore! by BumpyCarrot · · 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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    Do you see what I did there?