On Sunday 12 January 2003 09:20, Tim Wunder carved in granite: > > % > 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. > > % > > > % 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...
If you can't *play* the CD you don't *have* the CD, you've got a coaster. Perhaps a class action suit for false advertising (that it was a music CD that would play) would be more effective. In Harmony's Way and In A Chord, Tom ;-}) Tom. Condon Barbershop Bass Singer Registered Linux User #154358 A Jester Unemployed _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
