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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. Gorgeous? Take beer goggles off please! by OmegaBlac · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Gorgeous nerd Annalee Newitz...
    WTF? Is this is your definition of gorgeous? Is this some type of late April Fool's joke or have you been drinking? Or are you refering about her "gorgeous" mind? I guess just about anything with a vagina will look gorgeous to slashdot geeks.
  2. Re:Dude... by stunt_penguin · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Yea but this is /. so the stories are expected to be a day or two late. There'll be a dupe along in a minute.

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