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Fight DRM While There's Still Time
ageor writes "It seems (not only) to me that DRM is about far more than intellectual property. It's also about monopoly and freedom of choice. It's one of those cases where we, the consumers, must decide against accepting the new industry's rules, which care only about control and making money. The whole matter is very well put in DRM, Vista and your rights, where you can follow the subject as deeply as you like through the numerous relevant links."
Right, and in the case of racism, there's a very stong way to fight it: don't be racist. And has that worked? Go ask your local redneck.
ResidntGeek
This isn't about "Freedom". There is no right for anybody to be able to purchase a movie without DRM. Nobody's rights are being violated. All that's happening is that for anti-DRM fanatics, there are fewer and fewer things available for them to buy. So what? That sucks for them, true. But how about my rights to buy a new car with an eight-track player built in? Is my "Freedom" being trampled? No. Discussing movies with secret codes that only let you play them on certain players with the same vocabulary that is used to discuss "freedom of speech" and "freedom of the press" does nothing but belittle real, actual freedoms. Somebody please point to me where Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Constitution our Inalienable Right to Buy DVD's without Digital Rights Management.
I don't respond to AC's.
iTunes creates an incredibly straight forward interface for putting music on your iPod.
One of the signs that somebody has been infected with the Steven Jobs meme virus is when they gratuitously pepper their sentences with 'incredibly.'
Or, they are cut-n-pasting comments direct from the Apple Paid Advocates (tm) daily email.