The campaign to eliminate DRM
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Now this is my kind of “campaign”. Unfortunately, I missed out on the Seattle “get together” which was held yesterday (June 10th) [via]. There were similar events held in San Francisco, Chicago, Cambridge, New York, Plano and Los Angeles. Did anyone else have a chance to take a peek at the “festivities”? If, like me, you missed out on the opportunity to express your disapproval of locked DRM files, you can view a video.
Fret not as a public event in your area may be scheduled in the near futuer, just point point your browser to DefectiveByDesign (fitting name right?) and drop your credentials to receive notification for your locality.
Where do you stand on DRM locked files? I know that the topic of DRM is a much discussed interest as individuals constantly seek methods to unlock their own purchased files. It seems like a redundant number of hoops to jump through in order to enjoy your own library.
DRM is the suck… I will admit but I have always managed to find quick easy ways around it thus far…
e.g. buy songs from apple itunes… burn them to disc… rip them in MP3 format… wahlah … no more DRM
A waste of time if you ask me. Let me explain my thoughts on DRM with the following analogy:
Man buys dress shirt from store, returns home, notices a security tag that reads “only wear with brown suit or else shirt evaporates”. Said man is limited to wearing that single shirt with anything as long as it’s a brown suit.
Now where is the true ownership?
Um, yeah, i’m sorry…sure DRM is to blame, but i see no future for legal download music without DRM…
DRM can so easily be sneaked by, so might as well make people happy and get rid of it. If DRM or anything similar were more powerful, people would resort to buying CDs back as they can easily be shared (physically) and swapped.
DRM, well the best expression that comes to mind is defective by design..