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The Futility of DRM
« on: August 27, 2007, 02:06:02 am »
After the recent breakthroughs by hackers in many areas it seems no lesson is learned by the media fat cats.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6944887.stm

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Digital Rights Management, or DRM, is a technology that divides opinion.
For some campaigners, it is "defective" software that cripples products and should be abolished immediately.
To the record and film industry it is a "crucial" tool that allows them to protect and sell their goods online.

As a result, the software locks have become the focus of a game of digital cat and mouse. As each new or updated DRM system is released an army of hackers pores over the code and often releases a workaround within hours or days.



In short, Digital Rights Managements (DRM) the tool used by the media companies to steal your rights from you is shown time and again to be broken or dangerous as well as not being fit for the task, it seems the Cartel are still intent on their moronic struggle against their customers, lets hope they don't learn before they go bankrupt.

Whilst they attempt to place more and more restrictions on purchased online media and yet charge a similar price for a physical object that contains none, they are just demonstrating they are happy to defraud their online customers, EMI has stepped up to become the only honest one of the four, lets ensure we back their move by not purchasing DRM filled downloads from the 3 remaining cartel members, I'm sure they will get the message from their stocks and shares managers if no one else.

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Re: The Futility of DRM
« Reply #1 on: August 27, 2007, 10:29:11 am »
Perhaps I need an explanation on DRM because even on the wife's pc and on mine also. Hers running Vista w/WMP11, and mine running XP w/WMP11 will both play music in my files that I know says protected. If it's no more effected than this I don't see the reason to even have DRM. Music I've ripped shows protected but nothing stops me from sharing it or listening to it all I want to.
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Re: The Futility of DRM
« Reply #2 on: August 27, 2007, 11:39:33 am »
Its likely you,ll only notice a problem when you try to move your music to another device Nooky, many cannot burn or even move to a portable player due to the DRM, in theory sharing such items would be bad for all, as they should not work on the machine they where either not created on or licenced to.

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