Re: [News] DRM Always a Crime Against People, India Fights for Freedom
Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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____/ Phil Da Lick! on Wednesday 03 December 2008 09:51 : \____
Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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DRM is always anti-user
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| No user likes DRM. What Cory Doctorow said about Sony is really true for
| all DRM: “No Sony customer woke up one morning and said, “Damn, I wish
| Sony would devote some expensive engineering effort in order that I may do
| less with my music.”". Expanding the DRM acronym (to mean “digital
| restrictions management” or “digital rights management”) is a matter of
| what side you’re on. If you’re on the user’s side, the side that says you
| ought to be able to treat stuff you bought as your own, you’ll not forget
| that “digital rights management” is “private language” as well. It’s
| language that exists to promulgate the publisher’s perspective instead of
| the user’s perspective thus reframing the debate to getting us to believe
| that our needs are less important or completely ignorable. The thing that
| makes DRM interesting to publishers is how well it can restrict users from
| doing what users want to do. Hence digital restrictions management is a
| more honest way of looking at what DRM means.
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http://www.digitalcitizen.info/2008/11/28/drm-is-always-anti-user/
“DRM is nearly always the result of a conspiracy of companies to restrict
the technology available to the public. Such conspiracy should be a crime,
and the executives responsible for it should be sentenced to prison.”
--Richard Stallman
I bought Hancock on DVD this week and couldn't help but notice there's a
"digital copy" on the disc which you can install into your computer.
Being a Sony disc, I wonder what else will be installed onto the machine
of anyone dumb enough to fall for this one. I had to laugh when I read
the blurb in the accompanying literature "using your digital copy you
can watch this movie anywhere!". Well thank you sony, this is much
better than simply having a dvd that I can watch anywhere!
You can have the DVD. You can burn it, cut it, toss it in the air... BUT...
The content on the DVD is not yours ("all rights reserved").
I haven't got a problem with that per se, but I do object to them
dictating how and where I use it after purchase. I resent the assumption
that I am a pirate because I am not.
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