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The big DRM mistake
Scott Granneman, 2006-03-01

Digital Rights Managements hurts paying customers, destroys Fair Use rights, renders customers' investments worthless, and can always be defeated. Why are consumers and publishers being forced to use DRM?

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Tim Donahue
"I would have advised you to send the New Yorker package back to the manufacturer. As long and publishers continue to treat their customers like we are criminals, we need to stop being their customers."

Haven't you read the DRM Licenses that come with things today? My personal favorite one is along the lines of "This CD may not work in some older CD players or computer cd drives. We do not accept returns of this product due to DRM issues."

They might as well have just said "Now that you bought this CD, we would just like to say, we 0wnz j00."

Fair use is going the way of the dodo in the good old USA.

Tim Donahue

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