securityfocus.com — It seems that a growing number of people are recognizing that, despite everything the entertainment industry says, copy protection simply doesn't make any sense. Not from a consumer standpoint and not from a business standpoint.
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Closed AccountMar 2, 2006
Copy protection MUST GO! Theres no way you can enforce it, and if they did, they would be arresting the whole US from when they steal music, or even if they just hum a tune.
prontechMar 2, 2006
The world will not become "open" until the average Joe wakes up and rattles their consumer cages.
parable2005Mar 2, 2006
"We live in a capitalistic society. Make all content freely available and you reduce to nearly zero the incentive anyone has to make world-class content."No-one said anything about making everything free, dork.I can't wait for the day when the record companies have gone the way of the do-do and I can buy direct from the artists. We are getting there. Just wait....
gotamdMar 2, 2006
That was a very well written article that is basically exactly matching the way I feel about DRM. It seems like most people here on Digg don't even bother dealing with "legal" content anymore, but for those of us who do, DRM is a huge PITA which has driven people like me to take illegal action to achieve legal ends (fair use). This article also highlighted the many reasons why I hate the iTMS and refuse to use it.
vinnyMar 2, 2006
"We live in a capitalistic society. Make all content freely available and you reduce to nearly zero the incentive anyone has to make world-class content. "6strings, providing content that does not use DRM is not equivalent to making it freely available. I don't understand why you are equating the two.
mikoloneMar 2, 2006
I think it is going to be funny when people realize that they are going to get screwed and then quit downloading. I quit downloading from iTunes right away when I had downloaded a cd and it started telling me that I couldn't urn it anymore. I bought the music. Anyway, I ended up buying the cd from amazon so that I wouldn't have to worry about the DRM. It was the last cd I will ever buy from iTunes. i bought a cd once from the real player store and couldn't even burn it to a cd. That was the last cd i bought from them. They need to give us mp3s. Stingy bastards.
vinnyMar 3, 2006
"I think it is going to be funny when people realize that they are going to get screwed and then quit downloading. I quit downloading from iTunes right away when I had downloaded a cd and it started telling me that I couldn't urn it anymore. I bought the music. Anyway, I ended up buying the cd from amazon so that I wouldn't have to worry about the DRM. It was the last cd I will ever buy from iTunes. i bought a cd once from the real player store and couldn't even burn it to a cd. That was the last cd i bought from them. They need to give us mp3s. Stingy bastards."MikoLone, I guess you didn't realize that you could have simply burned that album you bought from iTunes as an audio CD and had basically the same thing you bought from Amazon. Once you burn your iTunes music as an audio CD, there is no DRM. Did you bother to read any of the information on iTunes?
edantzerMar 3, 2006
this is by far the most interesting article i've read on digg.awesome read and a mostly nice discussion afterwards.the article expressed my opinions so well. why pay for a badder version of something when you can get a better one for free?
anaphylaxisMar 4, 2006
<a class="user" href="http://www.free-culture.cc/">http://www.free-culture.cc/</a>"Lawrence Lessig shows us that while new technologies always lead to new laws, never before have the big cultural monopolists used the fear created by new technologies, specifically the Internet, to shrink the public domain of ideas, even as the same corporations use the same technologies to control more and more what we can and can’t do with culture. As more and more culture becomes digitized, more and more becomes controllable, even as laws are being toughened at the behest of the big media groups. What’s at stake is our freedom—freedom to create, freedom to build, and ultimately, freedom to imagine."