Comments on: Boycott DRM now!

By: E

Mon, 26 Dec 2005 03:22:13 +0000

This seems like a legit post from someone I dont know… CD burners have no DRM what-so-ever, DVDs do, but it has been cracked for many years or else I would’t be able to watch DVDs on linux. This new drm in blue ray and HD-DVD tries to plug the hole in the bleeding pig by stopping the analog hole. Of course as long as my eyes are analog I imagine there isn’t a good way to fix this problem, just make it a pain in the ass to get around it…

By: anon

anon — Sun, 25 Dec 2005 01:21:11 +0000

they have already implimented much of this technology in cd/dvd burners, by locking us into reagon codes (which is not law).

i would also be warry of blu-ray with its built-in DRM, which is why im stickin to clean burn i make myself

By: Jon C. Nordin

Jon C. Nordin — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 14:31:11 +0000

Have OIL, will GOUGE!

By: E

Tue, 27 Sep 2005 00:59:34 +0000

The blackberry thing only works under the theory that people are so dumb they don’t realize they need to buy a service plan to make the thing work… So they end up eating more pizza and don’t need to go out… Why doesn’t this country or state inact some laws that make it illegal to advertise the introductory price (for cable broadband for example) but never metion how much it actually costs… Its kindof like finding a buch of starving people and giving them free food… for a couple days and the gouging the hell out of them when they are dependant on you…

By: Jon C. Nordin

Jon C. Nordin — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 18:01:29 +0000

Little digital devices are becoming so prevalent in society that you can now get a free Blackberry by ordering a pizza from http://www.PapaJohns.com. I damn near did that very thing yesterday.

I wanna choke the marketing shmuck who decided: “Hmmm…Pizza and Blackberrys go together pretty well…”

By: Czech Air

Czech Air — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 15:29:25 +0000

Kind of sucks that we are all addicted to these little digital devices, eh?

By: Jon C. Nordin

Jon C. Nordin — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 14:38:09 +0000

The name of the game from a DRM business standpoint has always been to seperate consumers from their hard-earned nickels.

I have always been of the “if you can download it, then it should be free” kind of mentality. I mean really, how often does a regular at-home consumer actually transfer every downloaded program or media file successfully to a new computer? I would speculate that even a child of the digital age would be hard-pressed to transfer EVERYTHING they have purchased or downloaded from one computer to the next computer…and if they are switching OS’s then they are doubly-hosed.

So in the DRM world (from a business perspective) it is PERFECT if you own a Compaq Windows-based box, and then you go buy an iMac and instead of moving your songs (applications, etc) to your iMac…you are forced to BUY everything all over again.

So really what it boils down to - for me - is that I think all the silicon-jockeys are fucking thieves and I could care less if they make a nickel off of me or not.

I will pay for what I WANT and am FORCED to pay for, and if I can figure out a way to NOT pay for it, then I won’t. And if it’s something that I WANT but decide I do not have the money for…then I will NOT buy it.

You can’t eat an MP3.