Star 'DRM Is a Complete Lie'
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 23rd Jan 2006 19:20 UTC
Law and Order "DRM is a lie. When an agenda driven DRM infection peddler gets on a soapbox and blathers about how it is necessary to protect the BMW payments of a producer who leeches off the talented, rest assured, they are lying to you. DRM has absolutely nothing to do with protecting content, it is about protecting the wallets of major corporations. The funny thing is they aren't protecting it from you, they are protecting it from each other."
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RE: This article is a useless rant
by Tyr. on Tue 24th Jan 2006 00:46 UTC in reply to "This article is a useless rant"
Tyr.
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2005-07-06

DRM is about raising the cost of piracy for the average person to the point that they would more likely conform with the copyright.

Yeah and the fact that it increases the media conglomerates stranglehold over the media all while making them even more money then they do now is just a happy coincidence. ( http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/736.html )

Let's just ignore the fact that they can eliminate a great deal more piracy by simply lowering their prices. Hands up everyone that's old enough to remember the lie that "cd's are only this expensive because they were new and there was a lower supply."
People are being ripped off, and as such they don't feel guilty about returning the favour. I know I don't.

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