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- warmcat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23I propose two things that are really easy to do:
#1: Do not buy stuff that is restricted in a way you aren't happy with. This means saying 'no' to the content you want, which is hard. But that message gets all the way up to the greedy suits who choose the restrictions in a really direct way.
#2: Visit http://jamendo.com for a variety of relatively liberally licensed alternative music of many genres you can listen to and download for free right now. You have the option to dontate a few Euros to anyone you appreciated. - Jugalator, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20The key to defeating DRM is what many people like me do right now. Don't use such formats. :-p That's basically the only universal language that works for them: your money.
But I guess RIAA will then just spin it so the loss of revenue isn't due to their ***** DRM, but to piracy. As usual.
Besides jamendo.com, take a look at for example GarageBand.com, allofmp3.com (IANAL so I won't comment on this service), magnatune.com, emusic.com. - dralezero, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15http://static.flickr.com/84/256790704_3f5c1cca61_b.jpg
GAAH! - moovitz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13If you get infected with DRM your doomed!
All the ointments in the world wont help either! - Zachariah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9http://img209.imageshack.us/my.php?image=img094925percem7.jpg
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Yeah, Jamendo is great.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9The object of DbD is to do it legally though, so the ***** in the RIAA/MPAA can't complain that "people just want to pirate everything, and every pirated song/movie is a lost sale" (which of course, isn't true).!
- oskite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7What an awesome sign.
- nocturn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Yes, we can.
Those companies will do anything for money. If we can hit them there, make DRM more expensive then no DRM (either by boycotts, laws or technology) and the problem will go away.
Also remember that the audio tape, the VHS cassette and the CD where touted as the end of the music/movie industry once. - latova, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Internet radio is one of the best alternatives.
- JamesWilson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Yeah.. or as someone 20 years older than me would say:
"Not with that attitude mister!" - curunir, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6@piratearrrgh:
Your statement is completely false. Artists (real artists, not greedy frickin' corporatized 'pop' performers) will still create their stuff, and they'll do it even if they don't get paid for it (I know I do). They did it for centuries before the record companies came along and made a business out of it - and they will continue long after the record companies are gone.
The only thing that will disappear will be the complete crap that the record companies keep telling you that you want. - NICU, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5In school they told me abstinence was the only way to prevent spreading it. Damn public schools!
- auhsor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Eh? Where does it say that magnatune was bought by garageband? I cannot see any information of them being bought by anyone.
But magnatune is awesome. Lots of info here: http://www.magnatune.com/info/ - shriek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Personally trying to convince someone that the recent moves of the music/movies industry are against fair use and strongly hurst the rights of consumers has become much of a daily quest. The problem is that I find too many people that think that in a democraty and free market society it is a right of the industry (or if you look at the bigger picture, a right of the society) to impose rules on how YOU play with YOUR music/movies/copyright-material.
So, to many people I speak to, even though they agree that their way to deal with artistic content will change with DRM they are somewhat passive about this issue... It is the ultimate sign of the end of civil rights awareness and a sign of Orwellian doublespeak: people believe they live in a free society and thus justify the rules that prevent them to use their property freely. - dominiccarr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Y'know Movie companies could try SELLING content without DRM. They haven't even tried that yet, it would be so simple, i know i'd buy it (if the price was right). However until i can buy the latest episode of lost with NO DRM i know where i'll be getting my lost fix: Bittorrent.
- .Steven, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I signed the bono petition!
- rodrigo74, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6So the same Bono that teamed up with Apple to release the U2 iPod would sign a petition against DRM?
- Novagenesis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"Email your friends and family, use our prepared text" - That's called Spam. We don't like that.
Spam is unsolicited. This is called a chain-letter. I hate them, too, but call a spade a spade, will ya. I'd rather get a chain letter from my best friend saying
"Be careful, if you buy the new DumbassBand CD, it won't work on your music player and you won't be able to return it. Even if you don't use a music player now, you will never be able to make the conversion! I'd let you listen to the music on it, but I bought it and I can't even listen to it!"
than get spam OR end up buying the cd - Novagenesis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3At which point they conclude to have succeeded. In the process, I still won't be able to play their goddamn cds on my mp3 player, and if I whine at -that- point, it'll be more than just guilty-conscience jackasses telling me I'm trying to steal music from the poor ***** musicians who can't afford to buy their 4th mansion if I don't buy their media in FOUR seperate formats, one -each- for my mp3 player, cd player, computer, and toaster!
- Jugalator, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Oops, magnatune was purchased by GarageBand or something.
Anyway, there's also mp3tunes.com... And all those things like last.fm and Pandora of course, but then we're moving out of off-line downloads territory if that's what's being looked for. It's free stuff though. - ccanni1028, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Novagenesis - I want your toaster.
- pupeno, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The idea is to post it as DRM, so people searching for DRM would find it.
- MagisterJoe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Similarly, eMusic is a really great place to get unrestricted content. They do online music right, and even have some pretty big names on the store.
- EroSennin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1They asked to post the following link everywhere to bring it up in google ratings so that people could find out the truth. ;-) Please consider placing it in your blog posts or site pages.
http://defectivebydesign.org/en/what_is_drm_digital_restrictions_management - sophiaperennis, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2You can buy DRM free music at http://www.emusic.com
- Mike89, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Sarcasm, Im figuring. It'd be nice if it had like.. some information on it? Or something like that.
- fatdog789, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That's because used to be paid *before* they did their work by sponsors or benefactors.
- Urza_the_Tyrant, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Digg effect =/
Try searching for "DRM" and find the 20+ dupes of this. - dkreifus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2DRM is a very bad idea. It only hurts the people who obtain music legally.
Those who pirate it will CONTINUE to pirate it. Those who obtain it legally will now just deal with many more headaches. They'll get sick of DRM. They'll get frustrated. At that point, they'll either just buy/borrow/copy the CD and listen to it on their home stereo, or begin to pirate music.
It's faulty by design, and doing more damage than good on all accounts. - jonj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The Irony of DIGG. Anything related to iTunes, Apple, or iPods gets dugg to the front page... as well as articles discussing the negatives of DRM!
- astrotrain, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Just don't purchase DRM infected media anymore, including Apple iTunes...
- bigtomrodney, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Of course I don't like DRM, but some of these ideas are terrible. For suggesting these things they don't deserve my support -
"Email your friends and family, use our prepared text" - That's called Spam. We don't like that.
"Download and print this leaflet" - Get rid of DRM at the cost of trees. Noone reads leaflets anyway.
"Google bomb DRM by adding this link to your website or any web page you can edit" - We will maintain the higher moral ground by sinking to lower tactics.
FFS. - theblacknight, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Too bad we can't use digg to make links to googlebomb DRM to defectivebydesign.org
- Sylvain228, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yeah, or buy music on DRM-free websites such as http://www.NeoMusicStore.com
- diagonalfish, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I love how one of the things is "digg this article", so it's really more like 9 things.
- EroSennin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Why so?
- zalewis, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1is that scott beiben in the background?
- ToriaURU, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0YES! STOP the madness of not having the freedom. Australia is close to passing a draconian DRM law passed very closely on the U.S. model. Canada's Parliament is soon to see a motion tabled that would make our law very close to the U.S. model as well. Are we going to stand for it? ***** no!
- andron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Wouldn't it be better to try to convince legislators not record companies?
If we can make DRM illegal in enough countries then the record companies would have no choice but to stop using it. After all DRM is (often) software, and software benefits from great economies of scale. If they can't sell DRM'ed products to enough people it will cease being cost effective to develop the technologies. Also the fact DRM is an imperfect system means you can't make one DRM scheme and leave it at that. DRM can be cracked, and most of it will always be crackable so they will need to keep making new systems.
At least the British library agrees that DRM is bad. - astrotrain, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1DRM is a waste of time and company resources. If anyone wanted to stop Piracy they should have done so years ago. No Delorian, or Police Box is going to help any this
Piracy mess they have now. - remailer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0neat poster, I've put one up in the window of my car.
- whitehornmatt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I would have done nine things to stop DRM, but ten?
- DooDooFace, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Sorry, free-rider problem. Too lazy. I wish you luck.
- piratearggghhh, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2zybch, the problem is creative talent (artists, programmers, actors, support staff) want to get paid - a lot - and donations and other voluntary forms of income won't pay their bills. I don't know anyone who wants to do anything for free or out of the goodness of their hearts. I just don't see any other way around this in terms of a business model. Personally I do think those greedy bastards charge way too much.
- djKianoosh, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0you can't stop the pirates, you can only hope to contain them...
- B4202, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1It Does Make A Difference !!!!!!
- Jeffrey903, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1Maybe we can try and convince the RIAA to not stop using DRM, but just switch to the "FLAC" DRM instead. That would be sweet. Our argument can be that it doesn't play on anything, so it's just as good, if not better than DRM (what we won't tell them is that we can either use the FLAC like it is or convert it into another usable format at an awesome quality).
- account, on 10/12/2007, -8/+4The letter to Bono should have been something like this:
Dear Bono,
You have been donating time and money to those that are disease-ridden, starving and homeless. Forget about them, we need some music that doesn't have DRM restrictions or we are going to die.
Really people, a letter to Bono was just stupid. - richiejp, on 10/12/2007, -8/+3Tommorrows headlines will be; "Ten Things You Can Do Today to Stop 'Top Ten Things' Stories On Digg".
Here's the website summerised:
1) Don't buy anything with DRM.
2) Tell your friends and random strangers to do the same. -
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