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The History of Hacking DRM

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the proud-tradition dept.

phaedo00 writes "Ars Technica writer Nate Anderson has penned an in-depth look into past DRM-crackings and what the future looks like for people who are vehemently anti-DRM: 'Like a creeping fog, DRM smothers more and more media in its clammy embrace, but the sun still shines down on isolated patches of the landscape. This isn't always due to the decisions of corporate executives; often it's the work of hackers who devote considerable skill to cracking the digital locks that guard everything from DVDs to e-books. Their reasons are complicated and range from the philosophical to the criminal, but their goals are the same: no more DRM.'"

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  1. Illegal? by ClayTapes · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Isn't it illegal to spread information on disabling DRM? Then again, i'm not a reader.

  2. Re:Anti-DRM? by SkipNewarkDE · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    I don't know anyone who's NOT Anti-DRM. All DRM does is make buying music miserable for the people who are doing it legally.
    Don't you KNOW IT. I cry everytime I click that one-click purchase button in iTunes to download a song. It's like crawling over broken glass when I have to take the extra ten seconds to authorize one of my computers to play my music the first time. Such a drag. It's an even bigger heap of misery when I need to deauthorize one of my five machines so that I can play my music on another machine. I wail everytime I need to burn a copy of a CD and I hit that 7 CD limit, and am forced to go through the extra ten seconds it takes to shuffle the songs around into a new playlist. It's awful.