Author Topic: AACS - Join The Boycott Or Own A Pile Of Junk (Read 1560 times)

GhostShip · « **on:** February 24, 2006, 03:28:42 pm »

This is it folks time to put the cash back in the wallet and wait it out with those who wish to turn our own machines against us.

http://writersblocklive.com/part-156

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Today the AACS (aggressive automatic consumer screwing) organization announced availability of the interim version of their system for protecting content providers from their criminal customers. Their noble intentions are pretty well summed up in this choice excerpt:

The AACS specification accelerates the ability of consumers to enjoy exciting, new, flexible entertainment experiences and storage options, while continuing to provide the traditional, straightforward playback mode, for the next generation of prerecorded and recordable optical media such as Blu-Ray and HD DVD. Additionally, AACS is designed to create unprecedented flexibility, portability and security for entertainment content to be enjoyed on networked home, portable PC or CE devices.

I especially love their mention of a ‘traditional, straightforward playback mode‘. I bet it pained them to have to include any way to play the content at all. Rest assured they have top minds working on making sure nothing will be straightforward in the future.

Further, if you download the AACS agreement itself, you find the frightening concept of the ‘analog sunset’ (it’s on page 82). This is where device manufactures agree to not make analog devices after certain preset dates.

Both HD-DVD and Blu-ray have embraced this draconian system, and the studios are salivating at the prospect of you never actually being able to own content again.

My reaction to this abomination is simple: no way in hell. I will not buy any product that uses this crap, and I hope you’ll join me in that boycott. Let these morons see the early adopters staying away in droves.

I will not be purchasing any of this stealth tecnology that takes away my existing rights and hands them over to some coke snorting cretin who knows which congressmen and woman to pay off.

Just say no, introducing a device to stealth tax us for content again and again is fraud, I have no respect for the theives behind this scheme and hope its hacked rather fast and publicly.

Lysander · « **Reply #1 on:** February 25, 2006, 12:04:11 am »

As I posted on the blog article, the editorial doesn't really say anything other than "BOYCOTT AACS! BECAUSE IT'S BAD BAD DRM AND IT'S BAD!" It gives half-hearted reasons at the beginning, but doesn't go into them or explain them. That's not a way to get anyone on your side. I'l waiting until I hear more about just what it does that's so wrong before I go on a war path. (And "butbutbutbut... it's *DRM*!" doesn't count.)

GhostShip · « **Reply #2 on:** February 25, 2006, 02:26:37 am »

Your entitled to your own opinion Lysander and installing devices on my machine that will not operate as well as the current ones due to backdoor deals with the media conglomerates is something that is not going to happen.

Most folks do not need a road map to tell them to head away from a sewage farm and DRM in any shape fits that bill.

Lysander · « **Reply #3 on:** February 25, 2006, 03:53:13 am »

I *said* "just because it's DRM" doesn't count. WIndows XP has DRM in it and people don't complain. Well, okay, people do complain, but nobody listens to them, because they're being idiots. The issue isn't that a system to stop people from making money on other peoples' work exists, it's that those systems are invariably terribly written, are too restrictive, and are clearly meant to serve the political interests of the corporate dickheads running the big companies rather than actually protecting content. (I.E: Sony not licensing music to work on iPods.) There are "passive" content protection schemes that work, are free of aweful system resource-hosing and spyware-infested software, and don't try to break your computer if they just suddenly decide that they don't like you. There's also Apple fair-play DRM, which I'm a little uncomfortable with, but is over-all a good compromise between the ideals of protecting content from pirates and being able to back up your music so that you don't need to buy it again if something breaks. I'm not saying I won't ever go up against HD-DVD, in fact I fully expect that I will. But I won't, until I know exactly what I'm complaining about. I'm not going to start waving a sign and screaming HD BAAAD! Just because some guy who has a blog tells me to. Rather, I'll read what it's doing myself, then decide how to react, and then tell other people why I'm reacting that way if they want to know so they can inform themselves as well. I'm sick and tired of seeing people all over the world cow-tow to other peopel just because they look like they know what they're talking about, and I am not going to be one of them. Nor am I going to be someone other peopel cow-tow to, even if I do happen to know what I'm talking about.,

GhostShip · « **Reply #4 on:** February 25, 2006, 01:34:31 pm »

I think the debate has been festering for a while but the move towards demanding control over the motherboard and each componenet part , slowly creeping over your machine is a line in the sand for me.

I hope you note I have urged boycotts of motherboards featuring Intel DRM systems previously and this guys blog is aa good a time as any to make a stand.

I have to ask you something here by the way, do you really think its the so called "pirates " their systems impacts on, or the consumer who can be forced to pay two or three times for the same product ?

Lysander · « **Reply #5 on:** February 25, 2006, 09:40:16 pm »

See, the thing about motherboards, that's what I'm talking about. I had no idea that the DRM was trying to actually control the hardware, or what not. Because no one bothered to tell me. All I'm asking is that I be givven teh information on jsut what this DRM does that's so bad before I campaign against it.