Today’s Thought on DRM
Building 50-foot walls just creates
a market for 52-foot ladders.
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When will they wake up and realise it’s a dumb idea to try and protect something when the key’s sitting right in front of the consumer?
This is the Internet. 2006. It only takes one person to crack a DVD and it’s available worldwide.
All they’re doing is pissing-off legit consumers. It’s bad enough already with DVDs you can’t skip warnings on, trailers before the menu comes up, inability to even push stop on some DVDs, etc.
I have a *large* collection of music (almost entirely paid for). I stopped buying DVD-As and SACDs (and sold the few I had), because I can’t rip them and listen to them on my Mac ‘jukebox’ or iPod.
So I’ve boycotted copy-protected CDs, DVD-As and SACDs, and now the upcoming DVD formats…