Welcome to the Future of DRM Media 734
MrFancyPants writes "'DRM, digital rights management, is quite possibly the holy grail of the music and movie industry, allowing them to control exactly how DRM protected content is used, distributed and above all can be tracked right down to the individual end user.' Hardware Analysis reports on a horror story of someone picking up a DVD recently and having to go through an agonizing process of installing DRM-enabled applications to even get it to play on his computer. If this is what the future holds, you'd better think twice about buying DVDs and other media, as you're basically at the mercy of the producer."
Plenty of time... (Score:5, Funny)
Plenty of time to make a "fair use" DivX copy. And share it on BitTorrent just out of spite.
Horror story (Score:2, Funny)
I get the rights when this gets on the big screen.
Warning! Cheap ass hack job article ahead. (Score:1, Funny)
could, the author, of this article, be William Shatner, in disguise, maybe, hiding between all the, commas?
Re:Plenty of time... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The Indiscriminator (Score:5, Funny)
It's all foiled by issue #25, when the Indiscriminator finds the executives price fixing and lobbying senators illegally. Things get a bit crazy in the D.C. issue, taking him straight to the White House!
Re:think twice about buying DVDs (Score:4, Funny)
It's a good thing you aren't providing support to proctologists.
Re:"Buy the movie now." False advertising? (Score:1, Funny)
Dear God! When did this happen? Why was I not informed?
Re:"Buy the movie now." False advertising? (Score:2, Funny)
Just wait till your next remote comes with an "I agree" button...