DRM – Digital Rights Mangament has been in the news as of late. Bad news, that is. Sicko-sorry-ass Sony has been selling music CDs with a computer virus-like subterfuge called a root-kit to block copying their CDs onto a computer or MP3 player. See the report in The Register today: “First Trojan using Sony DRM spotted”
Consider the following a Public Service Announcement: Sony, stuff it!
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Former Apple exec: No more DRM for me, ever
Mike Evangelist, former Director of Product Marketing for Apple’s ‘Pro’ applications department, has blogged his thoughts about DRM. Like many of us, he is offended by the fact that the fact that the record labels and movie studios treat their customers like criminals.From this day forward I will never spend a another dime on content that I can’t use the way I please. If I can’t copy it to my hard drive and play it using the devices I want, when and where I want, I won’t be buying it. Period.
They can all take their DRM, and their broadcast flags, and their rootkits, and their Compact Discs that aren’t really compact discs and shove them up their bottom-lines.
