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DRM — It's Not Really About Piracy
shadowmage13 writes "Hollywood privately admits that DRM is not really about piracy. From the article: 'In a nutshell: DRM's sole purpose is to maximize revenues by minimizing your rights so that they can sell them back to you... Like all lies, there comes a point when the gig is up; the ruse is busted. For the movie studios, it's the moment they have to admit that it's not the piracy that worries them, but business models which don't squeeze every last cent out of customers.' You can take action on Digital Restrictions Management at DefectiveByDesign of the Free Software Foundation, Digital Freedom, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation."
Hey, shithead, the phrase is "The JIG is up." Not gig. Fucking Stallmanite jackoff.
Check out my foes list to see who is so retarded that they can't use the signature line!!!
Stop this paranoid grouping of Hollywood as an "it," like it's "THE MAN" trying to keep you down. "Hollywood" is a huge, diverse group of people trying to create entertainment, and working in entertainment (in TV, movies and music) is a very tough job, the vast majority of the "grunts" working in entertainment aren't rolling in cash, but piracy does gnaw at the overall health of the entertainment industry and there are echo-effects that come down from "THE DRM MAN" whom you so enjoy attacking all the way down to the low-level "grunts" who are just trying to make a living while creating images or sounds that people want to experience.
These paranoid anti-DRM rantings all circle around bizarre philosophical arguments about "creating scarcity" and "trying to control you" but you're ignoring a valid economic point, which I have yet to hear addressed: when you copy a piece of digitized entertainment, which is for sale, you are effectively getting it "for free." When a million people copy something "for free," that's a significant chunk of return on someone's investment that is lost. The more pirating goes on, the more investors will drop the film and TV industry and invest in boring stuff like real estate, and you will see a decline in entertainment quality over time as it becomes more diluted.
Taking something that someone else paid for is a classic definition of stealing, isn't it? You want it, but don't want to pay for it, so you take it. Is it really about your "right to copy things" or are you just being greedy? And then you spew this philosophical bullshit about sticking it to "THE MAN" to justify your actions, but at the end of the day, even if you're correct that the DRM lawyers are evil assholes, you're STILL STEALING.