Dude, you've seen his insanity here before, why bother? It's pretty obvious that he's a teenager with delusions of grandeur who should be getting treatment for his mental illnesses.
Product makers figured they could screw torrent users over as if they had a monopoly.
Too many companies think this way, alas. Look at Sony, the Apple of the seventies and eighties. Now they think they're Microsoft and can root and vandalize paying customers' computers with XCP, remove features from a product the customer has already paid for, be sloppy with customer info, and wonder why they've been losing money lateley. Well DUH, idiots, you're not Microsoft. You're not even Apple any more.
This is a private property issue, nothing to do with government. If you are causing pollution to OTHER people's property and possibly even causing harm to other people's health, not yours, that's your problem, other people. Then it is up to those other people to sue you, that's all.
Since you're on slashdot I'll assume, perhaps mistakenly, that you're not stupid, but simply young (unlike that old rich Libertarian liar you've been listening to). If pollution could be stopped by lawsuits, the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act wound never have had a reason to come into existance.
Let me tell you, son, the world doesn't work that way. Before 1970 you had to roll up the windows driving past Monsanto, even in a hundred degree weather and no AC, because the air literally burned your lungs. Hundreds of thousands of barrels of extremely poisonous waste was buried across the river from St Louis (I have a copy of the EPA report). Rivers, streams, creeks, and lakes were so polluted that they actually caught fire.
Yet there were no lawsuits, you would have to have proved that your cancer was caused by the polluters' waste, and that's about impossible. And you would have had to have been rich enough to hire better and more lawyers than Monsanto had on payroll already.
Yeah, I was one of the kids writing the officials I was too young to elect to try to affect government and effect change.
Your idea is a rich man's utopia and a normal man's hell. If you aren't pulling in half a million dollars per year and you're pushing for this anarchic rich man's utopia your'e not only a deluded fool, but incredibly stupid.
Are you that ignorant or just trolling? The Mayans and Egyptians had civilizations going back to 6,000 BC. The Thais and Chinese have written histories going back 5000 years. Between the Mayans and Egyptians, that's over 8000 years of civilizations (600 years BC+2000 years AD).
Imagine if tax time came and nobody paid the taxes. Imagine if everybody cancelled their insurance and drove anyway. Imagine if everybody had drugs on them at all times.
"You can say that I'm a dreamer..." -- John Lennon
The shocking thing is that you guys still carry on with a constitution written at that time although your values have changed and large part of it are now so obsolete that it requires NRA money to keep it in place.
Our constitution has also been changed many times in the last two centuries. In fact, the bill of rights was the first thing to be changed about it. Later changes outlawed slavery, gave the vote to women, outlawed alcohol and then legalized it again, and so on.
But it's not an easy document to change, and that's a feature, not a bug. A change requires first, a 2/3rds vote in both houses of congress, then signed by the President, then agreed to by 2/3rds of the state legislatures.
I assume you mean all the creators who should be getting paid for their work, rather than get ripped off by torrents?
Right now I'm torrenting four different Linux distros, the movie A New Pirkinning (the free Finnish Star Trek/Babylon V parody), and the book I wrote. Your fisrt mistake is assuming BT is only for piracy.
The fact is, piracy doesn't cost the artist at all, it actually earns him money unless he's already famous. Nobody ever went broke from piracy, but many artists have starved from obscurity. Study after study shows that piracy increases sales, and music pirates spend more buying music than non-pirates. You're arguing against peer-reviewed research, son.
Cory Doctorow credits his status as a NYT best seller to the fact that he gives his books away for free at boingboing. Roger McGuinn of the old '60s band "The Byrds" credits the old outlawed Napster for his career's ressurection, because it brought his music to a new generation of music lovers.
Sorry, kid, but you're deluded. The only artists that are hurt by paracy are the ones that suck; the ones that may have one good song out of twenty. If piracy hurt artists, then all the free movies, books, and CDs at the library would have been harming publishers for hundreds of years. If not fo rthe public library I would not now have two dozen Asimov titles on my bookshelf.
Bittorrent and the internet itself is the public library for the 21st century. Only fools fear it.
Well, lucky he got to a hospital before he bled to death. Usually in an explosion it's not the shock wave that kills you, it's the debris from that shock wave. Remember, water is a lot denser than air.
Hell, Europe is "closer" to the oil-producing countries
If you mean closer to the oil producing countries than the USA is, you're wrong. The US is an oil producing country, but we use all we produce. Most of what we import comes from Canada.
Until anything approaching 60 mpg can be gotten out of a *SECONDHAND* car...
I bought my car used, it was five years old. It had a rated mileage figure of 35 mpg, I got 36 out of it once while driving 50 mph because I'd had a flat and was driving on a donut spare. So that's obviously doable, once we get 60 mpg cars.
where I can repair the car for no more than an ordinary one
Except for the batteries, electric cars should be far less expensive to maintain than gasoline engines.
Hell, I did some maths the other day. If you add up the price of every car I've ever owned, every repair I've ever done (not including my own time), and fuel for several years, it *STILL* doesn't come to the price of one of the fancy hybrid cars that they want me to buy.
That's now, but look at history to see what tomorrow will bring. When telephones were new, they were very expensive, only businesses had any real use for them (and few businesses at that), and they were a rich man's toy. Fifty years later everyone had one.
In 1964 a computer cost millions of dollars. Nobody ever dreamed there would be at least one in almost every home. It may be a while, but the price of electric cars will come down, range will go up, as will availability of charging stations. The future will see cheap electric cars.
Yes, but much of that price goes to your health care. Here, my health insurance premiums far outstrip my gasoline consumption. If I didn't have to buy healh insurance I wouldn't mind paying $10 per gallon.
Some of the features may seem like they are just catching up but in most of the important ways Windows is just plain better. Sorry but that's a fact.
Better how? It's prettier, but hardly better. It takes ten clicks in Windows to do what takes two in Linux. Linux updates take one click and no reboots. I can boot my Linux box and it comes up exactly like it was when I shut it down. Windows can't. I can configure a Linux box to boot without having to enter a password, Linux enters it for me. Windows can't. I can use movies as wallpaper, windows can't. I can have a wallpaper slide show. Windows can't. Linux can run on everything from a wristwatch to a supercomputer. Windows can't. And the list of things Linux can do that Windows can't is way too long to list. What can Windows do that Linux can't? Nothing I know of.
Yes, I run Win XP, Win 7, and kubuntu. Kubuntu is clearly superior in every way I've found. Your "it's a fact" is the opposite of the truth.
Linux is free while Win7 costs over $100. If something that is free still can't compete *at all* then there is very little room to say it's better or even nearly as good.
Windows has a multimillion dollar advertising budget, Linux doesn't. OK, that's one thing Windows can do that Linux can't, but the fact is, nobody but us nerds have ever heard of Linux. Well, except for Android, which is Linux, and is beating the shit out of every other phone OS in terms of sales.
Now tell me this -- Windows comes installed on almost every computer sold. Why would anyone replace it with Linux unless Windows was clearly inferior?
We are talking about the society that has a whole bunch of different rules for different classes of people, which IS a liberal point of view.
Well, we do indeed have that sort of thing. If a multimillionaire gets a DUI it's nothing; his lawyer has him out of jail before he's sober. It will nearly ruin a normal person. A millionaire can drive 200 mph without fear, that speeeding ticket to him is like your buying a candy bar. If you steal a candy bar, you go to jail. If a rich man steals another million, he probably steals it legally.
We are talking about "you didn't do that" mentality from the President, who thinks that people working their asses off to get ahead in the world should be punished for working harder than others.
Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't realize you were a right wing nutbar. Romney didn't "get ahead because he worked his ass off" like my late uncle did (with a lot of hard work but a hell of a lot more luck), Romney was born into wealth, as are most rich folks.
Nobody, not Obama, not even the socialists, want to punish anyone from working. What the fuck are you going on about, son?
You are correct, the point of education is to learn, and people who don't value that shouldn't be rewarded.
The learning itself is the reward, not some job.
Corporations that don't help educate their people who want to improve themselves will always suffer compared to those that do.
Your meds are starting to take hold, the further the comment went on the more rational it became.
Mybe he has a program he needs to run that won't run on Apple's OS? I'm really not very familiar with apple, do they have a music player that will fetch and display lyrics from the internet as the song plays? Amarok does, and afaik it only runs on Linux. Of course, Apple is now UNIX based, will Linux binaries runnatively on an Apple? Even if so, I'd rather get my programs from the distro's repository; little or no chance of being trojaned no matter what your OS.
The problem lies in people being assholes and not considering the "Golden Rule".
There are two "golden" rules. There's the Christian golden rule, which is treat others as you would want to be treated yourself, then there's the mammonist golden rule, "he who has the gold makes the rules." In the US at least, I think there are far more mammonists than Christians (although an awful lot of mammonists go to Christian churches every week but ignore what their bibles say).
It's been a while since you tried Linux, hasn't it? If not, you've chosen the wrong distro, which is what I suspect happened here (haven't RTFA yet). It's been five years since I've had any such issues.
That's the thing -- there is no Linux, there are a lot of Linuxes. For an example, in another thread a while ago someone was complaining that he couldn't play MP3s on his Linux box... of course not, he was running Red Hat.
OK, I'm back, just read the iApple ad (RTFA in this case means "read the fucking ad"). There's nothing there but pretty pictures of the macbook, descriptions of what a fine piece of equipment it is, and just says "Linux" without saying what distro, how he tried to install it, etc.
In short, TFA is bullshit. Tell me what distro you're trying to run! What drivers are lacking. If you've ever installed any OS on any computer.
the DRM software only attempts to enforce those licenses, not apply additional restrictions.
Bullshit. In the first place, I don't "licence a movie," I buy it. The license is between the copyright holder and the distributor. I signed no contract, I traded cash for merchandise. Yet the DRM on a DVD forces me to watch unskippable piracy ads (despite the fact that pirates never see those ads and I PAID for the damned thing) and often trailers and other crap as well.
It's perfectly legal for me to copy a song off of an LP to a cassette as long as I'm not selling or otherwise publishing that cassette.. But DRM prevents (well, tries to) me from copying that movie to my hard drive so I'm not put out by having to watch those stupid antipiracy warnings or worse, ten minutes of unskippable ads for other movies.
DRM applies any damned restriction the publisher wants, your constitutional rights as a customer and any licensing agreements you agree to be damned.
Those cheap prepaid phones don't have GPS, but they could do tower triangulation.
My deepest concern is that I'll be one of 6 dozen people whose cell timing and location fit some high profile crime find myself under extreme scrutiny by people I neither trust nor believe are interested in justice half as much as they are in feathering their prosecutorial careers in preparation for running for high office.
Sadly, few if any prosecutors are interested in justice or anything else besides furthering their careers. See: Innocence Project.
Those assholes really need to think about who they are hurting with this crap. It is the users, like me. I've got a substantial amount of PS3 games, both from PSN and retail. I just want to use them in peace without veing harassed by cyber-terrorists!
Considering that Sony rooted my computer with their XCP trojan and vandalized my system, and removed (stole!) OtherOS from people who had already paid for it, it's impossible to use ANY Sony product without being harassed by cyber-terrorists. Sony are cyber-terrorists, and if you're dumb enough to use a computer product from someone who would intentionally infect their paying customers with malware, you deserve what you get, fool.
Anonymous isn't the villian here, Sony is. As a former Sony victim, I applaud anonymous. And as much as I dislike MS, I suggest you recycle the PS3 for spare parts, sell your games, and buy an XBOX.
That's it. Toxify your local environment and expose yourself to biochemically active substances... Why not just move the fuck away from places with mosquitoes?
Where do you live, McMurtry? Why not simply get an electronic repellant? I've had one for years, they work. Well, until the battery goes out; I think that's how I got the "flu" a couple of months ago that I suspect was West Nile Virus. The next one I get will have a pilot light so I can see it's working.
History repeats itself. Back in the late '80s or early '90s, computer users rebelled against software (especialy games) that had DRM, for the same reasons people are rebelling against it now (the pirate version is superior to the paid-for version) and after a couple of companies that refused to remove DRM went bankrupt, the others folded and DRM was dead, only to come back in the late '90s when the industry had a new generation of suckers.
As to music, you notice that that's one place where DRM went away? You DO have a choice when you want "gimme shelter". You can buy it on iTunes, you can buy a CD, or you can download it from a pirate site for free and not have any of DRM's faults.
The DRM title's competition is the Pirate Bay. DRM never has worked, never will work, and cannot work.
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Dude, you've seen his insanity here before, why bother? It's pretty obvious that he's a teenager with delusions of grandeur who should be getting treatment for his mental illnesses.
Product makers figured they could screw torrent users over as if they had a monopoly.
Too many companies think this way, alas. Look at Sony, the Apple of the seventies and eighties. Now they think they're Microsoft and can root and vandalize paying customers' computers with XCP, remove features from a product the customer has already paid for, be sloppy with customer info, and wonder why they've been losing money lateley. Well DUH, idiots, you're not Microsoft. You're not even Apple any more.
This is a private property issue, nothing to do with government. If you are causing pollution to OTHER people's property and possibly even causing harm to other people's health, not yours, that's your problem, other people. Then it is up to those other people to sue you, that's all.
Since you're on slashdot I'll assume, perhaps mistakenly, that you're not stupid, but simply young (unlike that old rich Libertarian liar you've been listening to). If pollution could be stopped by lawsuits, the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act wound never have had a reason to come into existance.
Let me tell you, son, the world doesn't work that way. Before 1970 you had to roll up the windows driving past Monsanto, even in a hundred degree weather and no AC, because the air literally burned your lungs. Hundreds of thousands of barrels of extremely poisonous waste was buried across the river from St Louis (I have a copy of the EPA report). Rivers, streams, creeks, and lakes were so polluted that they actually caught fire.
Yet there were no lawsuits, you would have to have proved that your cancer was caused by the polluters' waste, and that's about impossible. And you would have had to have been rich enough to hire better and more lawyers than Monsanto had on payroll already.
Yeah, I was one of the kids writing the officials I was too young to elect to try to affect government and effect change.
Your idea is a rich man's utopia and a normal man's hell. If you aren't pulling in half a million dollars per year and you're pushing for this anarchic rich man's utopia your'e not only a deluded fool, but incredibly stupid.
3000 years is less than human civilization.
Are you that ignorant or just trolling? The Mayans and Egyptians had civilizations going back to 6,000 BC. The Thais and Chinese have written histories going back 5000 years. Between the Mayans and Egyptians, that's over 8000 years of civilizations (600 years BC+2000 years AD).
Syd? Is that you?
No, it's Hotblack Desiato.
Imagine if tax time came and nobody paid the taxes.
Imagine if everybody cancelled their insurance and drove anyway.
Imagine if everybody had drugs on them at all times.
"You can say that I'm a dreamer..." -- John Lennon
The shocking thing is that you guys still carry on with a constitution written at that time although your values have changed and large part of it are now so obsolete that it requires NRA money to keep it in place.
Our constitution has also been changed many times in the last two centuries. In fact, the bill of rights was the first thing to be changed about it. Later changes outlawed slavery, gave the vote to women, outlawed alcohol and then legalized it again, and so on.
But it's not an easy document to change, and that's a feature, not a bug. A change requires first, a 2/3rds vote in both houses of congress, then signed by the President, then agreed to by 2/3rds of the state legislatures.
I assume you mean all the creators who should be getting paid for their work, rather than get ripped off by torrents?
Right now I'm torrenting four different Linux distros, the movie A New Pirkinning (the free Finnish Star Trek/Babylon V parody), and the book I wrote. Your fisrt mistake is assuming BT is only for piracy.
The fact is, piracy doesn't cost the artist at all, it actually earns him money unless he's already famous. Nobody ever went broke from piracy, but many artists have starved from obscurity. Study after study shows that piracy increases sales, and music pirates spend more buying music than non-pirates. You're arguing against peer-reviewed research, son.
Cory Doctorow credits his status as a NYT best seller to the fact that he gives his books away for free at boingboing. Roger McGuinn of the old '60s band "The Byrds" credits the old outlawed Napster for his career's ressurection, because it brought his music to a new generation of music lovers.
Sorry, kid, but you're deluded. The only artists that are hurt by paracy are the ones that suck; the ones that may have one good song out of twenty. If piracy hurt artists, then all the free movies, books, and CDs at the library would have been harming publishers for hundreds of years. If not fo rthe public library I would not now have two dozen Asimov titles on my bookshelf.
Bittorrent and the internet itself is the public library for the 21st century. Only fools fear it.
He is lucky to be alive at all.
Well, lucky he got to a hospital before he bled to death. Usually in an explosion it's not the shock wave that kills you, it's the debris from that shock wave. Remember, water is a lot denser than air.
Hell, Europe is "closer" to the oil-producing countries
If you mean closer to the oil producing countries than the USA is, you're wrong. The US is an oil producing country, but we use all we produce. Most of what we import comes from Canada.
Until anything approaching 60 mpg can be gotten out of a *SECONDHAND* car...
I bought my car used, it was five years old. It had a rated mileage figure of 35 mpg, I got 36 out of it once while driving 50 mph because I'd had a flat and was driving on a donut spare. So that's obviously doable, once we get 60 mpg cars.
where I can repair the car for no more than an ordinary one
Except for the batteries, electric cars should be far less expensive to maintain than gasoline engines.
Hell, I did some maths the other day. If you add up the price of every car I've ever owned, every repair I've ever done (not including my own time), and fuel for several years, it *STILL* doesn't come to the price of one of the fancy hybrid cars that they want me to buy.
That's now, but look at history to see what tomorrow will bring. When telephones were new, they were very expensive, only businesses had any real use for them (and few businesses at that), and they were a rich man's toy. Fifty years later everyone had one.
In 1964 a computer cost millions of dollars. Nobody ever dreamed there would be at least one in almost every home. It may be a while, but the price of electric cars will come down, range will go up, as will availability of charging stations. The future will see cheap electric cars.
Yes, but much of that price goes to your health care. Here, my health insurance premiums far outstrip my gasoline consumption. If I didn't have to buy healh insurance I wouldn't mind paying $10 per gallon.
You're right, I didn't see that there was more. Probably wouldn't have clicked if I had, though.
I guess in the future, lucid dreaming will be mandatory learning a young age
And we'll have a new form of entertainment.
True. Also, people react to different SSRIs differently. Prozac may work fine for person A but not person B, while Paxil may work for B but not A.
Some of the features may seem like they are just catching up but in most of the important ways Windows is just plain better. Sorry but that's a fact.
Better how? It's prettier, but hardly better. It takes ten clicks in Windows to do what takes two in Linux. Linux updates take one click and no reboots. I can boot my Linux box and it comes up exactly like it was when I shut it down. Windows can't. I can configure a Linux box to boot without having to enter a password, Linux enters it for me. Windows can't. I can use movies as wallpaper, windows can't. I can have a wallpaper slide show. Windows can't. Linux can run on everything from a wristwatch to a supercomputer. Windows can't. And the list of things Linux can do that Windows can't is way too long to list. What can Windows do that Linux can't? Nothing I know of.
Yes, I run Win XP, Win 7, and kubuntu. Kubuntu is clearly superior in every way I've found. Your "it's a fact" is the opposite of the truth.
Linux is free while Win7 costs over $100. If something that is free still can't compete *at all* then there is very little room to say it's better or even nearly as good.
Windows has a multimillion dollar advertising budget, Linux doesn't. OK, that's one thing Windows can do that Linux can't, but the fact is, nobody but us nerds have ever heard of Linux. Well, except for Android, which is Linux, and is beating the shit out of every other phone OS in terms of sales.
Now tell me this -- Windows comes installed on almost every computer sold. Why would anyone replace it with Linux unless Windows was clearly inferior?
We are talking about the society that has a whole bunch of different rules for different classes of people, which IS a liberal point of view.
Well, we do indeed have that sort of thing. If a multimillionaire gets a DUI it's nothing; his lawyer has him out of jail before he's sober. It will nearly ruin a normal person. A millionaire can drive 200 mph without fear, that speeeding ticket to him is like your buying a candy bar. If you steal a candy bar, you go to jail. If a rich man steals another million, he probably steals it legally.
We are talking about "you didn't do that" mentality from the President, who thinks that people working their asses off to get ahead in the world should be punished for working harder than others.
Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't realize you were a right wing nutbar. Romney didn't "get ahead because he worked his ass off" like my late uncle did (with a lot of hard work but a hell of a lot more luck), Romney was born into wealth, as are most rich folks.
Nobody, not Obama, not even the socialists, want to punish anyone from working. What the fuck are you going on about, son?
You are correct, the point of education is to learn, and people who don't value that shouldn't be rewarded.
The learning itself is the reward, not some job.
Corporations that don't help educate their people who want to improve themselves will always suffer compared to those that do.
Your meds are starting to take hold, the further the comment went on the more rational it became.
Mybe he has a program he needs to run that won't run on Apple's OS? I'm really not very familiar with apple, do they have a music player that will fetch and display lyrics from the internet as the song plays? Amarok does, and afaik it only runs on Linux. Of course, Apple is now UNIX based, will Linux binaries runnatively on an Apple? Even if so, I'd rather get my programs from the distro's repository; little or no chance of being trojaned no matter what your OS.
Oops, meant to say /. - damn dyslexia
Don't you mean Lysdexia?
The problem lies in people being assholes and not considering the "Golden Rule".
There are two "golden" rules. There's the Christian golden rule, which is treat others as you would want to be treated yourself, then there's the mammonist golden rule, "he who has the gold makes the rules." In the US at least, I think there are far more mammonists than Christians (although an awful lot of mammonists go to Christian churches every week but ignore what their bibles say).
It's been a while since you tried Linux, hasn't it? If not, you've chosen the wrong distro, which is what I suspect happened here (haven't RTFA yet). It's been five years since I've had any such issues.
That's the thing -- there is no Linux, there are a lot of Linuxes. For an example, in another thread a while ago someone was complaining that he couldn't play MP3s on his Linux box... of course not, he was running Red Hat.
OK, I'm back, just read the iApple ad (RTFA in this case means "read the fucking ad"). There's nothing there but pretty pictures of the macbook, descriptions of what a fine piece of equipment it is, and just says "Linux" without saying what distro, how he tried to install it, etc.
In short, TFA is bullshit. Tell me what distro you're trying to run! What drivers are lacking. If you've ever installed any OS on any computer.
the DRM software only attempts to enforce those licenses, not apply additional restrictions.
Bullshit. In the first place, I don't "licence a movie," I buy it. The license is between the copyright holder and the distributor. I signed no contract, I traded cash for merchandise. Yet the DRM on a DVD forces me to watch unskippable piracy ads (despite the fact that pirates never see those ads and I PAID for the damned thing) and often trailers and other crap as well.
It's perfectly legal for me to copy a song off of an LP to a cassette as long as I'm not selling or otherwise publishing that cassette.. But DRM prevents (well, tries to) me from copying that movie to my hard drive so I'm not put out by having to watch those stupid antipiracy warnings or worse, ten minutes of unskippable ads for other movies.
DRM applies any damned restriction the publisher wants, your constitutional rights as a customer and any licensing agreements you agree to be damned.
Those cheap prepaid phones don't have GPS, but they could do tower triangulation.
My deepest concern is that I'll be one of 6 dozen people whose cell timing and location fit some high profile crime find myself under extreme scrutiny by people I neither trust nor believe are interested in justice half as much as they are in feathering their prosecutorial careers in preparation for running for high office.
Sadly, few if any prosecutors are interested in justice or anything else besides furthering their careers. See: Innocence Project.
Those assholes really need to think about who they are hurting with this crap. It is the users, like me. I've got a substantial amount of PS3 games, both from PSN and retail. I just want to use them in peace without veing harassed by cyber-terrorists!
Considering that Sony rooted my computer with their XCP trojan and vandalized my system, and removed (stole!) OtherOS from people who had already paid for it, it's impossible to use ANY Sony product without being harassed by cyber-terrorists. Sony are cyber-terrorists, and if you're dumb enough to use a computer product from someone who would intentionally infect their paying customers with malware, you deserve what you get, fool.
Anonymous isn't the villian here, Sony is. As a former Sony victim, I applaud anonymous. And as much as I dislike MS, I suggest you recycle the PS3 for spare parts, sell your games, and buy an XBOX.
That's it. Toxify your local environment and expose yourself to biochemically active substances... Why not just move the fuck away from places with mosquitoes?
Where do you live, McMurtry? Why not simply get an electronic repellant? I've had one for years, they work. Well, until the battery goes out; I think that's how I got the "flu" a couple of months ago that I suspect was West Nile Virus. The next one I get will have a pilot light so I can see it's working.
History repeats itself. Back in the late '80s or early '90s, computer users rebelled against software (especialy games) that had DRM, for the same reasons people are rebelling against it now (the pirate version is superior to the paid-for version) and after a couple of companies that refused to remove DRM went bankrupt, the others folded and DRM was dead, only to come back in the late '90s when the industry had a new generation of suckers.
As to music, you notice that that's one place where DRM went away? You DO have a choice when you want "gimme shelter". You can buy it on iTunes, you can buy a CD, or you can download it from a pirate site for free and not have any of DRM's faults.
The DRM title's competition is the Pirate Bay. DRM never has worked, never will work, and cannot work.