DRM — It's Not Really About Piracy

Posted by kdawson on Monday January 15, 2007 @10:03PM from the squeezing-blood-from-silicon dept.

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."

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In other news... by AxminsterLeuven · 2007-01-15 22:09 · Score: 5, Funny

... "Tobacco industry privately admits smoking actually not very healthy at all."
Re:Power to the artists??? by Bloke+down+the+pub · 2007-01-16 00:31 · Score: 5, Funny

Some of the best pieces of art are composites of other pieces of art (Shakespeare being the classic example).
You clearly haven't seen his work in the original Klingon.

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Re:Like Region Coding, Then by KoldKompress · 2007-01-16 02:14 · Score: 5, Funny

This is almost like Region coded Slashdot..