Comments on: Zune, DRM and ’shrill demands’ http://www.p2pnet.net/story/9933 p2pnet.net - reader powered Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:23:46 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/9933/comment-page-1#comment-120647 Reader's Write Sun, 24 Sep 2006 22:08:35 +0000 #comment-120647 "with the companies that make up the MPAA and RIAA only being pawns" Right on. But there are more pawns that meet the eye. Pawns also are the copyright burocrats that endorse and the politicians that approve the disfunctional laws that prohibit defeating DRM in the privacy of one's home. Pawns are also the politicians of second tier countires (with the USA being the only first tier country in the world) that approve laws only because dominant Uncle Sam wants them to do it. Rafael Venegas http://www.gvenegas.com “with the companies that make up the MPAA and RIAA only being pawns”

Right on.

But there are more pawns that meet the eye.

Pawns also are the copyright burocrats that endorse and the politicians that approve the disfunctional laws that prohibit defeating DRM in the privacy of one’s home.

Pawns are also the politicians of second tier countires (with the USA being the only first tier country in the world) that approve laws only because dominant Uncle Sam wants them to do it.

Rafael Venegas
http://www.gvenegas.com

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/9933/comment-page-1#comment-120608 Reader's Write Sun, 24 Sep 2006 05:24:37 +0000 #comment-120608 Like I want someone else deciding what technical limitations MY music has. DRMing Creative Commons music? This deserves boycotting on principal, not just on the bogus technical limitations. Like I want someone else deciding what technical limitations MY music has. DRMing Creative Commons music?

This deserves boycotting on principal, not just on the bogus technical limitations.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/9933/comment-page-1#comment-120602 Reader's Write Sun, 24 Sep 2006 00:33:58 +0000 #comment-120602 Articles like this one make me nervous. As annoying and as frightened as the major labels and studios are, they are not the ones directing this game of chess against citizens. They are asking for the impossible, which is to make digital content less able to be copied (like trying to make water not be wet). A few hardware vendors have decided to use their fear and lack of technology knowledge and turn these industries into pawns in a game being played by these hardware vendors. The studios and labels will not and can not benefit from DRM. The only beneficiaries are the platform monopolies that are created, meaning it is companies like Microsoft, Apple and Sony (electronics) that are playing this game, with the companies that make up the MPAA and RIAA only being pawns. Articles like this one make me nervous. As annoying and as frightened as the major labels and studios are, they are not the ones directing this game of chess against citizens. They are asking for the impossible, which is to make digital content less able to be copied (like trying to make water not be wet). A few hardware vendors have decided to use their fear and lack of technology knowledge and turn these industries into pawns in a game being played by these hardware vendors.

The studios and labels will not and can not benefit from DRM. The only beneficiaries are the platform monopolies that are created, meaning it is companies like Microsoft, Apple and Sony (electronics) that are playing this game, with the companies that make up the MPAA and RIAA only being pawns.

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