http://www.blindedbytech.com/2006/01/05/music-drm-and-why-it-affects-you/ Random notes from the tech world. Sat, 24 Dec 2011 20:59:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.blindedbytech.com/2006/01/05/music-drm-and-why-it-affects-you/comment-page-1/#comment-1218 Dave Tue, 13 Mar 2007 13:46:24 +0000 http://www.blindedbytech.com/?p=9#comment-1218 Excellent article. I quoted from it in a recent debate on DRM. Thanks. Excellent article. I quoted from it in a recent debate on DRM. Thanks.

]]> http://www.blindedbytech.com/2006/01/05/music-drm-and-why-it-affects-you/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Link With Reality Web Log » Pledge to not buy DRMed CDs Mon, 09 Jan 2006 16:56:35 +0000 http://www.blindedbytech.com/?p=9#comment-4 [...] The music industry has been waging a war on its consumers with DRM, and it’s getting to concerning levels. With Sony BMG’s latest gaff of installing crippling rootkits on user’s computers via its CDs, it’s more important than ever to let the industry know that this is not acceptable. Elizabeth Stark and Fred Benenson of Freeculture.org created this PledgeBank pledge: “I will pledge to never purchase a CD contaning any form of Digital Rights Management (DRM), but only if 500 people around the world will too.” Sign this petition to let the music industry know that it’s a problem crippling their consumers’s PCs. (They already hit the 500 mark, but it’s a good idea to get the petition to as large a number as possible.) [...] [...] The music industry has been waging a war on its consumers with DRM, and it’s getting to concerning levels. With Sony BMG’s latest gaff of installing crippling rootkits on user’s computers via its CDs, it’s more important than ever to let the industry know that this is not acceptable. Elizabeth Stark and Fred Benenson of Freeculture.org created this PledgeBank pledge: “I will pledge to never purchase a CD contaning any form of Digital Rights Management (DRM), but only if 500 people around the world will too.” Sign this petition to let the music industry know that it’s a problem crippling their consumers’s PCs. (They already hit the 500 mark, but it’s a good idea to get the petition to as large a number as possible.) [...]

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