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DRM Garbage

The system makes you pay 15-20 bucks for a one of three codecs that inherently support license management (DRM) to completely limit and track use of the files. If you doubt me, check what Microshaft's descriptions of the codec?s support for file to device synchronization feature actually entails. You can only send it to another home machine verses say your office or grandmother's, anywhere else and they will know and be able to track it if you do. Look at your internet connection when you try to play a file in MS Media Player if you doubt me. This verses your average VCR or PVR software like MythTV (GPL) which could care less what you do with the file. When are these people going to realize that just because granny or whoever does not watch their show at the prescribed time and place it is not stealing? They are such utter control freaks. TIVO sell out to them to avoid law suits, but the reality is that they are actually disabling features the software in the Linux core of their systems had to start with. Why is it so hard for them to grow up and deal with the modern world in instead of shackling everything out of fear of change? Does anybody here realize how many useful and wonderful features will never be realized because these fools are stuck in the dark ages? Do you realize that you are now able to do less than you were 10 years ago with TV recordings? It is obscene and in many ways a criminal restraint of our rights as a consumer and as a people. No one should be cheering this, they should be suing. Copyright is a privilege not a right that we grant them for economic and social good. If they are violating that contract maybe it is time we withdrew that privilege. You would do it for your average 2 year old, why not these people who are acting even less mature?

Posted by: alricsca   Posted on: 01/03/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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