Comments on: ‘DRM at risk’ warning!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 15:49:50 +0000

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 21:21:17 +0000

As far as something worth watching, there is already no tv. I’ve canceled my pay to view accounts and no longer have anything hooked up to my tv as an outside signal soure. It’s been this way for around 3 years now and I find I am none the worse for it. In fact, I’m money ahead.

The idea that there are umpteen channels on satellite but rerun city is the theme they subscribe to make it a dead enviroment for entertainment. It’s hardly worth the money to see everything the first 1/2 of the month and wade through reruns till the next month comes out.

DRM has altered the product to where ownership is not part of the deal anymore. There’s no reason to buy something when the price is sought to be ever higher for a product with heavy limitations. Part of buying is being able to adapt it to your lifestyle, be that cd for a vehicle, tape, or just conversion to mp3 for your personal player. Since it can’t be used that way, it can’t be resold to recoup some of your expense for a poor choice, and it can’t be refunded as defective, it is better not to buy to begin with. Myself, I choose to get more bang for the buck for my entertainment dollars than this severally limited media.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 03:24:50 +0000

$1.5 billion annually? Pfft. Bill Gates has $50 billion (and an army of programmers)
Micro$oft IS DRM (read the Windows/Office XP EULAs and you’ll get my point )
However, there’s always Linux and IsoBuster via Cedega to get the un-DRMed files (and DeCSS for DVDs:D)

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 01:41:52 +0000

Oh, all you iPoders, movie goers and players of CDs. Don’t you know if the product can’t be locked down, “they” won’t make any more?

I bet Sony just packs it in and lets its artists go free to do whatever they will.

You’ll be so sorry when there’s no TV.

Yahoo!