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Is DRM Intrinsically Distasteful?
jelton writes "If digital media was available for sale at a reasonable price, but subject to a DRM scheme that allowed full legitimate usage (format shifting, time shifting, playback on different devices, etc.) and only blocked illicit usage (illegal copying), would you support the usage of such a DRM scheme? Especially if it meant a wealth of readily available compatible devices? In other words, if you object to DRM schemes, is your objection based on principled or practical concerns?"
Oooh, look at you! So brave, fighting the good fight against those copyright hating, communist loving hippie slashdotters! Man, you're a fucking hero. Truly a modern Robin Hood, fighting for those poor, helpless corporations and their downtrodden shareholders.
Add me. Ignoring the technical impossibility- copyrights are immoral. Culture- songs, music, movies, literature, etc- belongs to society, and more importantly to its people. Any effort to stop people from accessing culture is just wrong.
I still have more fans than freaks. WTF is wrong with you people?
Who the fuck gave you the idea that you're morally entitled to profit from your ideas? No law anywhere recognizes that stupid notion, precisely because it's stupid: if the world did really work the way you think it ought to, progress would grind to a halt.
Perhaps you've bought too much into the media cartels protectionism propaganda?
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