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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> __/ [ 7 ] on Friday 10 November 2006 09:53 \__
>
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>> Is DRM good or bad for consumers?
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | In addition, many consumers don't understand DRM restrictions, and
>>> | they're surprised when a CD that works on a home stereo can't be
>>> | played somewhere else, she said. Vendors offer "little disclosure
>>> | about how consumers can use" DRM-protected content, she said.
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/11/08/HNdrmgoodorbad_1.html
>>>
>>> Related worthwhile observation:
>>>
>>> MPAA: Frustrated Consumers Will Pirate
>>>
>>> ,----[ Excerpt ]
>>> | The MPAA's Brad Hunt outlined some of the ways the MPAA is working
>>> | to standardize content protection controls in the age of digital
>>> | home networking. But he also acknowledged that piracy is the
>>> | consumer's answer to the content industry's inability to provide
>>> | a simple digital-rights-management solution.
>>> `----
>>
>> Government watchdogs investigating claims of piracy in Australia
>> have found that none of the RIAA and MPAAs of this world
>> have substantiated evidence of piracy.
>> They just make up numbers and hope no one checks up on them.
>>
>> BWAAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAAA!!!!
>
> The following was published on Weds.
>
> Piracy figures are inflated say criminologists
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| A draft report by the Australian Institute of Criminology says
>| copyright holders are making up piracy figures in order to sway
>| governments to their side.
> `----
>
> http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=35580
>
> Dramatic licence? They handle crackers, suspected terrorists (geez... even
> Open Source and Stallman) in the same way...
>
> Demonise, get sympathy, criminalise.
>
Funny you mention that. I don't know if you've ever read "The Hacker
Crackdown" - it's an excellent book, freely available on the net, not
too long. It's one of the few things you can still get using gopher!
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