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- mpam, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20I'm not buying any products with DRMs inside, from Vista to CDs... So thank you Warner, M$ & Co for these wonderful DRM that make me save a lot of money !
- icdeadpeople, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17DRM is not good...
- Qwertie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Me neither. I simply won't buy music with DRM. Hey music companies, if you want to have customers, then treat them with respect, not like dogs who have to be kept on a tight leash. Until you do, I'll be getting my music from Amie Street, eMusic, etc.
Yeah, techies who know about DRM may not be your main market, but we have friends and we warn them. - kenvsryu, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12This should be sent to Apple - the largest peddlers of DRM. If apple refused to sell DRM material the record companies would have to set up their own shop or remove DRM and comply.
- theWaterboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7That has been my stance for a long time. The only music I will purchase is that of artists without copy protection. This is actually pretty easy since most of the good artists these days are actually those that are on independent labels.
The music that has (or rather HAD by the time most of the world sees it) copy protection, will always be freely available for FREE, so no point in paying for that.
It's really something everyone should consider:
- buy non DRM music, and get the rest for free until it is no longer DRM - GregoryHeller, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5We did send an open letter to Steve Jobs. Six thousand people signed it, Steve Jobs announced the EMI deal.
(you can see the letter here http://www.defectivebydesign.org/actions/open_letter/steve_jobs) - brianez21, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4***** the RIAA!!
- Warptera, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2That's only the decryption code for playing HD-DVDs in Linux, right?
Edit: Okay, I signed. The goal is 500, people. We're at 53 so far. - gyrfalcon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2No kidding!
- lanchon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2signed the letter with this inspiring comment...
Will never buy anything remotely connected to DRM. Never bought a single DVD video disc. Never a mutilated copy protected music CD. No Vista, going to Linux because of DRM. No HDCP in my HD screen! No blu-ray or HDVD, no iPods, no smartphones, no PlaysForSure infected music players. And apparently I'll have trouble changing my car. I'm also boycotting non DRM products from DRM friendly companies because I consider these companies to be a threat.
Your business model is a dying dinosaur, a brief awkward mistake during the last 50 years. By forcing selected works down the throats of everybody around the world with the incredible force of unstoppable marketing, you ate like leaches from 0.01% of the artists while eliminating the livelihood of all others. When you are extinct, artist will be able to work again. You are the exterminator of artists.
No doubt you're almost dead now. But while you're dying there's still time for you to bag a little fortune. May I suggest that you use it wisely? Drop DRM, you are being boycotted for it, and besides it doesn't work. Try downloading your DRM crapped precious content, you'll get it in 30 seconds for sure.
Drop DRM. At least earn while you die. - Egoist, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Yes, because online petitions have been so wildly effective in the past...
- dieseltravis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2How is there over 100 more diggs than signatures? If you digg it, sign it.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Seriously, why can't they try new business models like Grooveshark (http://www.grooveshark.com) or We7 (http://www.we7.com)? Give people music that they can use, and people might stop pirating it.
- ammadz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Waner can kiss my arse!! Give it up, Edgar
- Moduliz0r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1DRM is futile.
- Lynxpro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1
There is a fatal flaw in this petition's assumption...that Edgar Bronfman can actually read. - Lynxpro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1
Pronounced A-S-S-H-A-T. - Sunnz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Signed.
- Depthfunction, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1How the hell do you pronounce "Bronfman"?
- com64, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0My thoughts exactly.
- manifestbeauty, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I think we need to take this a step further and realize that so long as enough people will pay for it there is little that will change. Questionable company practices say a lot more about consumers than they do about the companies themselves. Apple and all other parties involved with DRM will only practice what their customers allow them too. So maybe the lot of us have failed for unsuccessfully spreading the word and educating our friends and families on the "whats" and "whys" behind them choosing to be more patient and hold back their cash in order to demand "better".
- iamstriped, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Everyone please sign this we need to make people realize that DRM is ruining the American music industry
- DRFighter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Shall I record me reading it so that he can listen to it and follow along with the words? This petition could be, not only a crash course in DRM, but also a lesson in reading 101. :)
- manifestbeauty, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Is there a similar petition available for signing that targets Joe T. Public? After all, if you really want these reprobates to listen it's time to start voicing opinions with dollars and cents. Who cares who's whining and crying so long as the cash keeps rolling in. Don't support these darkage models by purchasing the products. Kind of like pointing the global warming bad-guy-finger at the oil companies all the while unconsciously gulping gas for every fuel dependent desire beyond necessity.
Haven't bought absolutely anything from DRM sponsoring companies since the heft of it all began. Nor will I ever. There are better films, musicians and other sorts of entertaining artists in the world that are wise enough not to tie themselves to these visionless pimp farms. In that respect I'd like to thank the RIAA and all outfits of similar type for inadvertantly forcing me via scruples (old world execs see dictionary.com for clarification) to further my immersion in the products of indie and frontier-leading production teams/companies/communities who are creating win-win business models that deliver thoughtful, engaging, high quality content. - Amavida, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Agreed.
These monopolists are just beginning their mistake.
It will take a lot to make them change tho. - bitplane, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Our freedom, or your life.
- generalloy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1This article is so appropos, with what happened today and last night regarding 09 F9..
- Trigle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yeah signed with comment:
I am totally outraged, not at the attempts to circumvent this 'protection' but the fact our civil liberties are being taken away.
People should not have to adhere to the technologies and protections given to the world, your response would be then to not watch any movies on HD-DVD.
That's perfectly fine with me, as they will most likely be overpriced and low quality (as with DVD).
People should have the choice to do what they choose, if they wish to be law abiding then they should be, otherwise they should deal with consequences. You can't take that choice away from everyone by constantly trying to introduce techniques that undermines the very essence of free will and free thinking.
Without our civil liberties we are imprisoned. - bitplane, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0You really think McDonalds care that much?
For a creative, rewarding vocation where having an opinion, being proactive and thinking freely are desirable traits then Internet petitions would stand in your favour if anything. - bitplane, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Technical people make the public opinion on technology. We put Google, DivX and MP3s where they are today, let's not forget that.
- rbabiak, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1this would not work, the music industry wants apple out of thier basket, They view apple as having a strangle hold on their industry, and they are making money off there property... If apple left the music distribution market we would end up with DRM, and higher prices.
- dkm201, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3internet petitions lol
- joshpowell, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Wow... I'm impressed. No "***** the RIAA!!!!111" comments yet =)
- bigtrouble77, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1I stopped signing petitions like this because it's the first thing people see when they google my name. I really don't want my employers to have access to this type of information about me. You never know how they'll interpret it.
- swavalier711, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1welcome to the internet. It is not a nice place with dancing animals and rainbows. It's free for everything, and allows the mask of anonymity for everyone. Some of that isn't nice.
Unless you want a government-regulated super-PC land, get the ***** out and head back to facebook where the big guys can take care of all the messages those big meanies are sending you. - Lorian, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1/me signs.
:) - Kevinb1577, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1how so?
/sarcasm - raicuandi, on 10/12/2007, -7/+0hehehe (@mpam)
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