Comments on: Today’s Thought on DRM http://writersblocklive.com/todays-thought-on-drm-2006-07 Home of "Jobs I've Known" a book in progress Wed, 17 Aug 2011 11:40:58 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: barefootguru http://writersblocklive.com/todays-thought-on-drm-2006-07/comment-page-1#comment-2741 barefootguru Thu, 13 Jul 2006 03:34:58 +0000 http://writersblocklive.com/part-189#comment-2741 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... 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…

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