DRM



DRM is crap

I'm writing a paper for a philosophy class on the morality of DRM. I am appalled at just how much consumers are being limited in they way can use media they've purchased. It spans all electronic media, CD's, DVD's, MP3's, eBooks, software.

I know it's old news but it still rankles: Dimitri Sklyarov was arrested for his work on cracking the Adobe eBook format. Yeah, re-read that. From that statement it might seem like what he did should be illegal, however, the intended use for the software was to allow a consumer to take their legally purchased eBook with them wherever they were and also to allow the book to be read by the computer for the blind. Doesn't seem so wrong any more, eh?

When I buy myself an MP3 player for X-mas it most definitely will not be an iPod. There are three reasons behind that.

    Proprietary media format
    DRM and lack of native support for Linux
    No OGG support

 

Submitted by linuxphile on Sat, 2005-11-12 22:45.
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