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Originally Posted by ahi
Pure hilarity!
Obviously the MAFIAA's brainwashing campaigns have, in part, achieved their goals: Customer's demanding the right to have their rights curtailed and violated.
- Ahi
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The funny thing about this is that is not what I was saying. Another is what gives YOU the right to curtail someone else's right? It is my belief that the cost benefit ratio makes the DRM the most easily applied partial solution to the problem from a company stand point.
And yes Companies have rights too, along with the people employed by those companies.
I am not a DRM advocate but as I see it, as long as it is implemented correctly, it is a necessary evil. I for one do not want my prices to go up to keep the company producing said goods in the black, due to prolific pirating of their products. If you will remember the GPL also allows such redistibution and selling of individual distros of Linux for example. What is the great difference here? Why is that ok and it isn't to repackage a PD (which is related, if not in the same ballpark) and sell for a profit?
Sometimes I think people just look at themselves and how they are affected by things like this. Didn't anyone ever have their parents tell them "Nothing in Life is Free"?