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- Guspaz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is getting a bit insane...
At least the RIAA isn't as bad as the MPAA, though. While the RIAA's lawsuits continue, they have still more or less abandoned DRM on their primary products (CDs) and have (in part) began moving to DRM-free digital distribution (see EMI).
Meanwhile, the MPAA enforces more and more draconian DRM schemes, saddling us with having to update firmware on HDDVD drives in order to play movies that blacklist hardware and software, and affecting the functionality of our computers with things like HDCP and protected content path.
Why, just the other week AMD announced that they were going to prevent access to the Radeon's videocard framebuffer in hardware in order to prevent pirates from capturing content from it. The only problem is that many legitimate applications (screen recorders and remote control applications such as VNC) rely on this access to get high performance access to the contents of the screen.
So now, the MPAA is indirectly crippling completely unrelated software that many of us use to do our JOBS in completely unrelated industries!
Sorry for hijacking the topic a bit Mr. Beckerman. - awesomotron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0/cheer /cheer
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