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GOG Launches FCKDRM To Promote DRM-Free Art and Media (torrentfreak.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: GOG, the digital distribution platform for DRM-free video games and video, has launched a new initiative designed to promote content without embedded DRM. The platform aims to promote GOG and other companies with a similar ethos, including those offering DRM-free music, books, and video. "DRM-free approach in games has been at the heart of GOG.COM from day one. We strongly believe that if you buy a game, it should be yours, and you can play it the way it's convenient for you, and not how others want you to use it," GOG said in a statement. While Digital Rights Management is seen by many companies as necessary to prevent piracy, GOG believes that its restrictions are anti-consumer and run counter to freedoms that should exist alongside content ownership.
A lawyer paying off a whore with money of his client to keep her mouth shut is one thing. It may be legal, it may be not, I don't know.
However, the same lawyer paying off a whore with his own money on behalf of a client to keep her mouth shut during an election campaign is, apparently, another. Unfortunately, the second is, it seems, defined by the law as illegal, and the lawyer will face scrutiny because of this, whether you call it an overreach or not.
But you know what's the saddest thing here? That the said lawyer learned about this the hard way and admitted guilt. You'd think he'd see it coming, having studied and practiced law, and would be able to defend himself.
If you are a lawyer and can't do your lawyer shit, I have as much sympathy for you as I'd have if you were a sysadmin who left his systems unpatched for years and then came to a spam filter's mailing list to bitch about being blocked.