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HyperHacker
Posts: 3792/5072		 I find it amusing that companies spend millions of dollars on things like DVD region codes when I can just press a few buttons on the remote in most cases to make the player region-free. They need to learn that if their software can decode something, so can someone else's, and that third-party software is more than likely going to just dump it to an unencrypted format.
Rom Manic
Posts: 364/557		 It means DRM in my Vista soup
Crashman
Posts: 73/80		 Its a joke. This America, a nation founded by people who like to tell Authority to "Fuck-off". Microsoft is trying to set itself up as an Authority, and you know what that means, don't you kiddies?
Rom Manic
Posts: 345/557		 I am running Connectix VGS.

IN YOUR FACE, SONY.
Cirvania
Posts: 856/1181		 *Cirvante has both Limewire and Azureus open at the same time, ZoneAlarm 6.x installed and running, and PeerGuardian 2 running.

Cirvante: 1
MPAA/RIAA/DRM: 0

Fission mailed
Rom Manic
Posts: 339/557
I really think that the idea of "Fair Use" has gone down the toilet as far as the **IA are concerned.


Which is why having such a stupid organization is a bad idea in the first place. They benefit by causing others a hassle, and they're fucking loaded.
Sukasa
Posts: 1789/2068		 That's just stupid. Seriously, what do these people hope to gain from DRM? It doesn't work, because you can easily defeat it by paying once for it, and then reproducing it with DVD recorders or whatever, and for audio? Give me a break- you can defeat it with a 3.99 cord fmo your local electronics shop. Frankly, i think DRM is both a waste of time, money, and the efforts of PR departments all over.
Tarale
Posts: 2252/2713		 Bleh. DRM has always struck me as a broken and anti-consumer idea in the first place.

I really think that the idea of "Fair Use" has gone down the toilet as far as the **IA are concerned. It's enough to drive one to deliberately do the wrong thing just in protest of the methods of these companies.
Rom Manic
Posts: 335/557		 http://cryptome.org/ms-v-does.htm

Originally posted by For The Lazy Bastards
Microsoft has reportedly sued numerous Doe defendants for producing and distributing FairUse4WM a software program that counters Microsoft Digital Rights Management System used to safeguard content downloaded through Microsoft s Windows Media programs. This follows at least one software patch that was released to counter FairUse4WM. The patch worked briefly, but now an updated FairUse4WM is available that technologically counters Microsoft's patch.

To its credit, Microsoft seems to understand one thing that some of its predecessors have struggled with: An anti-DRM tool that is being freely circulated on the Internet is not going to be stopped through a simple lawsuit. At the end of the day, Microsoft will need to continually monitor and update its DRM technology understanding that each successive patch will eventually be countered by a newly updated tool.

The real problem that Microsoft faces is that the recording and movie industries are demanding strict DRM protections before agreeing to release their movies and songs on the Internet. Hollywood demands these technological protections so that they can maintain an artificially high price for reproductions of their content.

The problem that consumers face is that DRM technologies are simply computer programs. They cannot differentiate between lawful copying and unlawful copying. So, all DRM technologies, to some extent, will hamper the fair use rights of consumers. Until that issue is addressed, anti-DRM technologies will always have widespread appeal.

Put another way, few people support piracy, but many support lawful fair use rights. Producers of Anti-DRM technologies say that their tools are intended to support fair use rights they argue that any misuse by content pirates is just an unintended consequence. The argument is not far from that of DRM producers: That the DRM products are intended to secure the legitimate rights of copyrightholders they argue that the effective removal of consumers fair use rights is simply an unintended consequence.

Until these unintended consequences are addressed, DRM producers and their stealth counterparts will perpetually face off in a modern-day game of cat and mouse.


In all honesty this whole DRM shit has to fucking stop. There's too much controversy and too much money being being wasted which could be used a little more wisely, rather than being wasted on lawsuits and creating DRM applications.

I cannot even BEGIN to imagine the money Microsoft is putting in to continuously update their Windows Media Player application all the time...Is it not ridiculous to even care, if it's not their concern? True, these things are being downloaded through WMP, but the copyright is ultimately not Microsofts.

EDIT: Fixed the link.
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