DRM - Is It Worth Going To Jail For?
In the spirit of all who chanced civil disobedience for their cause, this is offered as what NOT to do...under any circumstance. Not only would it be illegal (possibly a RICO case) it could temporarily devastate the retail businesses involved. Enough so that the effects would be newsworthy...and that is exactly the desired effect.
http://blog.lobby4linux.com/index.php?/archives/74-DRM-Is-It-Worth-Going-To-Jail-For.html
- Login or register to post comments
- Printer-friendly version
- 1585 reads
- PDF version
More in Tux Machines
- Highlights
- Front Page
- Latest Headlines
- Archive
- Recent comments
- All-Time Popular Stories
- Hot Topics
- New Members
digiKam 7.7.0 is releasedAfter three months of active maintenance and another bug triage, the digiKam team is proud to present version 7.7.0 of its open source digital photo manager. See below the list of most important features coming with this release. |
Dilution and Misuse of the "Linux" Brand
|
Samsung, Red Hat to Work on Linux Drivers for Future TechThe metaverse is expected to uproot system design as we know it, and Samsung is one of many hardware vendors re-imagining data center infrastructure in preparation for a parallel 3D world. Samsung is working on new memory technologies that provide faster bandwidth inside hardware for data to travel between CPUs, storage and other computing resources. The company also announced it was partnering with Red Hat to ensure these technologies have Linux compatibility. |
today's howtos
|
DRM - it *is* worth avoiding though...
In my opinion buying CDs for the purpose of returning them will do little more than aggravate the store clerks and they are not the enemy!
What I do, is rather than 'protest' for a day, I consistently refuse to buy any copy protected CDs and in fact any CDs released by companies who are the members of RIAA.
I used to buy more than 50 CDs a year... now I'm down to probably around 10 - but every one of these is released by (as far as I know) independent labels, and definitely none of them carry any copy protection.
THAT is what it will take to fight DRM: serious day to day, long term commitment, not one day of cheap publicity stunts!
People are sheep
People are sheep and can no longer think for themselves for your pick-and-choose "vote with your dollar" anti-DRM strategy to work.
All the sheep understand is that they "need" (and need it now) whatever crap music is being crammed into their psyche by the plethora of mundane tv/radio/web advertising for the masses.
Until the sheep turn back into people, and remind the entertainment industry that the "customer is always right", and that the entertainment industry is essentially a service industry not a dictatorship, then they deserve to get screwed.
this just kills me...
Vonskippy and I have had our disagreements over the years, but I gotta hand it to him...he's right. As long as there are 14 year old girls driving the consumer crunch...there is little outside of civil disobedience that will do any good. "Cheap publicity stunts" aren't nearly as cheap as our friend seems to think they are. Care to contribute to the Ad fund driving this effort?
I didn't think so.
h