Re:DRM - Digital rights monopoly
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Real DRM
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Dear Corporate America,
Want to lose me as a customer? Try and market to (abuse) me while you have me as a "captive audience". This is what I think of you and your "products":
Television - No more. Obvious reasons.
Movie Theatres - Harkins, AMC, other sell-outs? No thank you. If I want to *pay* to be shown commercials...well, see #1. Thankfully I live in the vicinity of a Madstone Theatre! http://www.madstonetheatres.com (No commercials, *real* food, wine, beer, and quality flicks!)
Phone service - QWest? Sorry guys, the RJ-11 in my home lies dead because the money I paid you for service wasn't enough. You felt it was necessary to sell my info to telemarketers and then turn around and push "caller-id" up my arse.
Pop-up ads - How rude...wallpaper your site with banners if you wish, but why would you want to piss-off someone you are trying to sell to? Mad props to the folks who make things like http://www.proxomitron.org and http://www.mozilla.org happen!
AdWare/SpyWare - One question for you folks "Where do you buy your crack?"
And last but not least:
ArseWare(Demo-versions that install/uninstall poorly or not at all, try and sneak a proprietary format into the mainstream and/or come along with heavy handed EULA's) - As the name implies, you know where to put it.
I must say, its amazing. Real Networks wins the ArseWare Prize time and again and yet they're still in business. How? They're products are bloated, slow, expensive and entirely proprietary. Who is using this crap and keeping them afloat?
I'm not trying to troll...really. I'd like to know who actually finds they're products worthwhile. (Any of them, not DRM wrapper specific)
I'd also like to know of any content that you can't get in an alternative format? Apparently I'm surfing in the wrong waters.
1) Take 1 RAID 0+1 file server and add 1 finacially challenged geek.
2) Baste with 50 Gig ADR Tape backup until Onstream SC50 is worn out.
3) Add spoonfulls of data until fault tolerant setup is nearly full.
4) Perform self-lobotomy.
5) Move all data to multiple machines across network.
6) Reconfigure server to RAID 0 to create more disk space.
7) Move all data back to nice big empty (non-fault tolerant) drive.
8) Cry in horror when one of the RAID's 75GXPs fails
9) Skip over shock and go to pure amazement when you discover that you're ADR media has failed.
10) ***Look at the monkey!***...BANG!!!
P.S. Can anyone recommend a good data recovery shop where I can have a failed 75GXP resurrected?
Formerly part of a RAID 0 stripe set in case you didn't guess...
- Fido
"It could be that the purpose of your life is solely to serve as a warning to others."
Definitely in the running for the best practical joke of the year. It just nudges out my previous favorite, the Monolith in Seattle.....Judging from the number of/. readers, this stunt might actually cause more registered voters to mull over what it is the WTO is actually up to. Moreso than the "protestors in Nike tennis shoes." ever did.
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Dear Corporate America,
Want to lose me as a customer? Try and market to (abuse) me while you have me as a "captive audience". This is what I think of you and your "products":
- Television - No more. Obvious reasons.
- Movie Theatres - Harkins, AMC, other sell-outs? No thank you. If I want to *pay* to be shown commercials...well, see #1. Thankfully I live in the vicinity of a Madstone Theatre! http://www.madstonetheatres.com (No commercials, *real* food, wine, beer, and quality flicks!)
- Phone service - QWest? Sorry guys, the RJ-11 in my home lies dead because the money I paid you for service wasn't enough. You felt it was necessary to sell my info to telemarketers and then turn around and push "caller-id" up my arse.
- Pop-up ads - How rude...wallpaper your site with banners if you wish, but why would you want to piss-off someone you are trying to sell to? Mad props to the folks who make things like http://www.proxomitron.org and http://www.mozilla.org happen!
- AdWare/SpyWare - One question for you folks "Where do you buy your crack?"
- ArseWare(Demo-versions that install/uninstall poorly or not at all, try and sneak a proprietary format into the mainstream and/or come along with heavy handed EULA's) - As the name implies, you know where to put it.
I must say, its amazing. Real Networks wins the ArseWare Prize time and again and yet they're still in business. How? They're products are bloated, slow, expensive and entirely proprietary. Who is using this crap and keeping them afloat?And last but not least:
I'm not trying to troll...really. I'd like to know who actually finds they're products worthwhile. (Any of them, not DRM wrapper specific) I'd also like to know of any content that you can't get in an alternative format? Apparently I'm surfing in the wrong waters.
$0.02 please.
Recipie for an aneurism:
1) Take 1 RAID 0+1 file server and add 1 finacially challenged geek.
2) Baste with 50 Gig ADR Tape backup until Onstream SC50 is worn out.
3) Add spoonfulls of data until fault tolerant setup is nearly full.
4) Perform self-lobotomy.
5) Move all data to multiple machines across network.
6) Reconfigure server to RAID 0 to create more disk space.
7) Move all data back to nice big empty (non-fault tolerant) drive.
8) Cry in horror when one of the RAID's 75GXPs fails
9) Skip over shock and go to pure amazement when you discover that you're ADR media has failed.
10) ***Look at the monkey!***...BANG!!!
P.S. Can anyone recommend a good data recovery shop where I can have a failed 75GXP resurrected?
Formerly part of a RAID 0 stripe set in case you didn't guess...
- Fido
"It could be that the purpose of your life is solely to serve as a warning to others."
Definitely in the running for the best practical joke of the year. It just nudges out my previous favorite, the Monolith in Seattle.....Judging from the number of /. readers, this stunt might actually cause more registered voters to mull over what it is the WTO is actually up to. Moreso than the "protestors in Nike tennis shoes." ever did.