On Sunday 12 January 2003 10:41 am, someone claiming to be Kurt Wall wrote: > Feigning erudition, Tim Wunder wrote: > % On Saturday 11 January 2003 11:07 am, someone claiming to be David A. > Bandel % wrote: > > [...] > > % > DRM (digital rights manglement, RIAA digitally mangling your rights). > % > Take it back and tell them it's defective, you can't play it in your > % > computer's CD. The only way to fight DRM is refuse to accept > delibrately % > broken products. > % > > % > > % <sigsnip> > % I tend to agree, but wouldn't another way to fight DRM be by rendering > the % technology to "digitally [mangle] your rights" ineffective? > > Perhaps. But, because RIAA is mostly concerned with money, depriving > them of it seems more effective and less likely to run the risk of > a DMCA prosecution for circumventing the restriction. >
Well, the problem with returning the CD is that, well, that I'd no longer *have* the CD (and it's rather good). Perhaps a note to the artist would help... -- RedHat Psyche 8.0, stock kernel, KDE 3.1.CVS, Xfree86 4.2.1 7:00am up 13:28, 0 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 It's what you learn after you know it all that counts _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
