Over the top

Posted Jun 3, 2009 21:10 UTC (Wed) by timschmidt (guest, #38269)
In reply to: Over the top by nye
Parent article: Okular, Debian, and copy restrictions

> What colour is the sky in your world?

Quite blue most days, but sometimes greyish, and nearly black at night with little sparkly pinpricks of light scattered about. It's quite nice really. You should visit reality sometime and see what it's like! :)

Over the top

Posted Jun 4, 2009 10:33 UTC (Thu) by nye (subscriber, #51576) [Link] (1 responses)

Okay, sorry. I'm just saying that I don't think it's realistic *at all* to expect content and its producers to 'fade into obscurity' simply for wanting to use DRM. The number of us who even know what that means may well be less than a percent of the general population, and the other guys just think we're wierd for caring about such things.

Over the top

Posted Jun 4, 2009 16:21 UTC (Thu) by timschmidt (guest, #38269) [Link]

One need not know what DRM is to be prevented from viewing content by it.

Many of my friends and co-workers have used iTunes in the past. Several of them stopped after catastrophic software failure or other calamity in which iTunes DRM keys were lost - preventing access to the hundreds of dollars of music they'd 'purchased'. Of course, when such things happen, these folks come to their friendly local computer guy, and we tend to show them the easiest way to replace all those music files - already bought and paid for - Arrrrr!

And that's how DRM fails - even for normal people.