__/ [ 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
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| 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.
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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.
Best wishes,
Roy
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