Comments on: FTC DRM comments: Industry groups speak up for, against DRM

By: anonymous

anonymous — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:52 +0000

In the future, all contact information, social security number, criminal and professional history, race, gender, political affiliation and activity, sexuality and sexual history, and social class will be required to even turn on your computer. And even then you must jump through the required hoops and fulfill your slave roles to earn amount a small amount of time to use it before it automatically shuts off, or attempts to beat you to a pulp while alerting the authorities to haul you in prison, where they’ll force you to work or torture you until you die, and then claim natural or accidental death to the public.

No wait – any mechanical, plumbing (toilets) or electrical machine will require this for access.

All future grimness aside, I cannot condone any present restrictions on my video games (and definitely my toilet access), they’re mine the moment I take it from the greedy merchant at the store, who all the while insists that a loyalty club card is better than a simple direct discount from the store.

By: Chris Meadows

Chris Meadows — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 18:56:46 +0000

@Francis: Yep, though a lot of those are those polished, well-written advocacy group screeds. There are perhaps an equal number of or fewer well-written screeds on the opposite side, and the rest of the anti-DRM’ers are ranting consumers whose complaints have been, annoyingly, conglomerated into hard-to-read single long paragraphs by the FTC’s lame-brained email system.

Hopefully the fact that there are so darned many aggravated consumer responses will clue the FTC in that the CIAA and RIAA et al don’t have a clue what they’re talking about.

Nicely-written blog post. I’m sorry I missed seeing the one about Intel.

By: FrancisT

FrancisT — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 17:47:31 +0000

I’ve commented here – http://www.di2.nu/200903/01.htm . I think we’re still at no more than a dozen or so pro-DRM comments

By: Robbie Clarken

Robbie Clarken — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 09:35:41 +0000

Nice summary. I agree with the that quote by the SIIA that DRM is a private matter between the consumer and distributor. All government should do is enforce whatever contract these two parties agree upon. (That doesn’t include punishing people who never bought the content from sharing it.) That said, I think that DRM is a futile exercise that can impair the experience of the customer. I just defend the distributor’s right to offer DRMed content and the customer’s right to agree or decline to buy it.