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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YET ANOTHER MISLEADING HEADLINE by MicrosoftRepresentit · 2007-01-15 22:23 · Score: -1, Troll

Can one of the fuckwit Slashdot editors please tell me where exactly in that article Hollywood admits anything? For fucks sake, cant the editors at least RTFA before they conjure up their headlines? Or is it deliberately dishonest?

I'm not disagreeing with the article, btw, its pretty much spot on. But even the shittest of shitty English tabloids wouldn't stoop so low as that headline did.