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- blackhydra, on 01/04/2008, -19/+330***** THE RIAA.
- pennyfan87, on 01/04/2008, -11/+274DRM is not dead. I still can't legally watch my DVDs on my PMP.
And even for music, DRM-free is only at a few online stores.
Buried for hyperbolic headline. - Trax91, on 01/04/2008, -3/+241Another one bites the dust!
- mlerner, on 01/04/2008, -8/+183Too bad it won't improve the music quality.
- duerra, on 01/04/2008, -1/+110Next up? DRM free video. Please.
- littleodie914, on 01/04/2008, -5/+109Youth Agenda:
1) Abolish DRM -- Done
2) Abolish RIAA -- In progress - RlAA, on 01/04/2008, -13/+90***** BLACKHYDRA.
See..you don't like it, it stings. You wouldn't think it would bother me that much, what with who I am and all..but it REALLY does, it really does..words are powerful man... - snurfle, on 01/04/2008, -0/+75You shouldn't post lyrics like that... they'll haul you in to court for copyright violations!
- likwidfuzion, on 01/04/2008, -3/+62The day has finally come.
- KnightMareInc, on 01/04/2008, -2/+59its hardly dead.
- digjam, on 01/04/2008, -16/+69I hope Amazon breaks the itunes market soon.... ppl just need to get educated that there are better alternatives...
Not everything that Apple does is the best. - Malevolant, on 01/04/2008, -0/+36DRM is far from dead. HD DVD and Blu-ray both have DRM and if HiDef goes mainstream we'll have more DRM. Blu-ray has two tiers of DRM, HD DVD has one.
- robbob, on 01/04/2008, -3/+38...but Sony will now create another proprietary format: .fu2
- mulling, on 01/04/2008, -3/+37The irony is people use Sony computers to pirate Sony music and movies. They're actually selling people the hardware to pirate their stuff. Hilarious.
- Pewpewpew, on 01/04/2008, -3/+34In fact, the last one bites the dust.
- KaJuN4, on 01/04/2008, -3/+313) Lower ridiculous drinking age
- digjam, on 01/04/2008, -8/+32"DRM-free is only at a few online stores."
Amazon sells DRM free music, isnt that enough for your ass? - shiftless, on 01/04/2008, -2/+25About 10 years too late, really. I don't trust major record companies. Wake me up when I can buy movies again.
- Havs, on 01/04/2008, -1/+23Now we need to focus on getting the movie studios to drop DRM as well. The only real reason DRM didn't work with music is because distribution of music is delivered via CD, an archaic medium that wasn't designed with DRM in mind. You can be absolutely sure that if music distribution had evolved like movie distribution did (with DVD and eventually Blu-ray and HD-DVD) we'd still be engulfed in restrictive music use policies. Consumers need to send a clear message, that DRM of any sort is intolerable. Do not buy ANY products that are embedded with DRM of any sort. Only when we cut into their profits will they realize that they need to stop treating their customers like common thieves.
- Matteos, on 01/04/2008, -1/+22Remember, Remember the 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 of November.
- nogami, on 01/04/2008, -0/+20Well, audio DRM that is... You'll be unpleased to note that DRM is alive and thriving in the field of video downloads... Let that be our next battleground.
- mulling, on 01/04/2008, -4/+23Really though, just to ***** with them we should all start a letter-writing campaign demanding they bring back DRM. One engineer will be like "See? I told you everyone loves it!" and everyone else's head will asplode.
- griz, on 01/04/2008, -7/+25The major labels have now given us all what we want, Non-DRM music with which to have more personal use freedom. Lets not abuse this through misguided interpretations of what DRM-FREE means.
- griz, on 01/04/2008, -6/+24The RIAA isn't a label.
- jcounterman, on 01/04/2008, -0/+18As long as your dream doesn't have a soundtrack
- mulling, on 01/04/2008, -3/+20Yeah, because it was so hard to copy their stuff when they sold it on millions and millions of DRM-free CDs. We must use this awesome new power for good.
- Chewie67, on 01/04/2008, -1/+18Granted, but what does the industry gain by replacing Apple with Amazon? It's not like they're doing a good job of spreading the wealth. They're just snubbing Apple and proping up Amazon. Isn't this just "Out of the frying pan and in to the fire?"
Just release your crappy music to all the services and let the customer decide where they want to buy it... - doskir, on 01/04/2008, -1/+17uhm wrong vcr had macrovision which basically screwed up the video if you tried to make a backup
- Havs, on 01/04/2008, -2/+18Now we need to focus on getting the movie studios to drop DRM as well. The only real reason DRM didn't work with music is because distribution of music is delivered via CD, an archaic medium that wasn't designed with DRM in mind. You can be absolutely sure that if music distribution had evolved like movie distribution did (with DVD and eventually Blu-ray and HD-DVD) we'd still be engulfed in restrictive music use policies. Consumers need to send a clear message, that DRM of any sort is intolerable. Do not buy ANY products that are embedded with DRM of any sort. Only when we cut into their profits will they realize that they need to stop treating their customers like common thieves.
- pcpimpster, on 01/04/2008, -8/+24"Not everything that Apple does is the best."
- ultrafez, on 01/04/2008, -1/+16Please, for Pete's sake, grow up and say MS rather than M$, what do you think they're going to do, come and hunt you down for using their company's initials without the ® on the end?
- pigfister, on 01/04/2008, -2/+17buried as inaccurate title: DRM Officially Dead not quite as we are still plagued by HDMI HDCP DRM, the worst ever anti consumer DRM conceived (Blu)DRM-Ray BD+, another one of sony's delights secuROM and so on, ect.
sony, disney and fox are the leading companies pushing propertarian, orwellian, anti consumer DRM lockouts and have the most lobbyists pushing congress to tighten the IP laws (DMCA), abolish fair use, criminalise ppl that use or even own software to circumnavigate any form of DRM and protect them from law suits when they run code on ppl's computers that cause damage and threaten your privacy by reporting information back to sony HQ about your computer usage (google: sony xcp).
sony, disney and fox are the MPAA they use piracy to scare monger ppl then make DRM secuROM, xcp and sell it to movie/game/cd makers and get paid from all sides and get fat while its the consumers that lose out as we are told we are pirates by sony for wanting to play our legally purchased cd's on our ipods because sony want 1 licence per device per user to quadruple their profits from each household, kinda like the military industrial complex.
Sony BMG's chief anti-piracy lawyer: "Copying" music you own is "stealing" October 02, 2007
funny look on copywrite:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJn_jC4FNDo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKI_w_VBoTQ
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/12/29/steal-this-fi ...
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The RIAA Soundexchange Are: SONY, UNIVERSAL, WARNER GROUP, EMI.
The MPAA Are: SONY, UNIVERSAL, WARNER GROUP, DISNEY, PARAMOUNT, FOX. - MaynardJK, on 01/04/2008, -1/+16I think he meant that the bands all suck these days (which is also the blame of the average idiot consumer), not that the music is of low fidelity.
- missingnoh4x, on 01/04/2008, -2/+16I think I just heard a choir of angels.
- NinjaBoy, on 01/04/2008, -2/+16Hey im going to sit by you, another one rides the bus.
- archer75, on 01/04/2008, -2/+15You get MP3's that can be played anywhere and in any device with no DRM on them. I don't see the problem.
- MacParrot, on 01/04/2008, -1/+14And you never will. This isn't about "owning" the music you purchase. As far back as you want to go with recorded media, you haven't owned the content. You had the right to listen to it on any device capable of playing it. Trying to make copies to sell is still not, nor should be, legal. Why not just be delighted that people can buy a digital copy and legally listen to it on any device capable of playing it.
I wish they would sell it on iTunes as well instead of trying to use it as a club against Apple. Sell it all without DRM, on every site that has permission to do so and maybe...JUST maybe people will choose other devices than an iPod. By not allowing people to transfer their purchased content from iTunes to any other device, they are almost guaranteeing that the next device people will be will be another iPod. Steve Jobs is laughing all the way to the bank.
Yeah you can digg me down for being honest - bagboyrebel, on 01/04/2008, -1/+13fourded
- ChaosMotor, on 01/04/2008, -2/+14What /about/ Vista? That it's the crappiest OS since... well... ever? Tell ya what, next time MY computer needs a new install, it's getting Ubuntu, my copy of XP Pro be damned. Vista, Microsoft, and all their garbage can rot in hell.
- elvenseven, on 01/04/2008, -3/+15Awesome.
- sinurgy, on 01/04/2008, -2/+14Ding dong the witch is dead...which old witch...the wicked witch...ding dong the wicked witch is dead!!
- MacTyler, on 01/04/2008, -5/+16haha I just noticed, for everyone else, (check his name)
- eurotransient, on 01/04/2008, -0/+11You're right about the license not physically stopping you from doing something. But you also aren't physically stopped from using Bittorrent to snag your music, right? The point is that the TOS has the language built in to hold you responsible for even letting a friend listen to your music on their own MP3 player or computer. While it is nice to see that I'm not physical restricted from technically using the music I buy anywhere, on any player, it's still pretty disheartening to realize that nothing has really changed. You still don't own what you've paid good money for.
- FKnight, on 01/04/2008, -1/+12In case all you guys missed it .... Vista is not a record label.
- Me1000, on 01/04/2008, -0/+11I think he means the RIAA will be the next to die.
- floridiot2, on 01/04/2008, -2/+13Dinosaurs will die.
- coviecarbine, on 01/04/2008, -3/+13You should make the upgrade to XP, or even better Ubuntu.
- cawpin, on 01/04/2008, -2/+12Now Amazon just needs to get off their asses and release their album downloader for Linux, or just drop the requirement of using it. I don't understand why they can't see that you're downloading a whole album and discount the prices accordingly.
- celkin, on 01/04/2008, -1/+11thirded
- luchid, on 01/04/2008, -5/+15Except it's whole new driver architecture was redesigned around DRM?
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