Feigning erudition, Tim Wunder wrote: % 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...
As Tom Condon pointed out, you *don't* have a CD, you have half a coaster. Obviously, it's your choice. Kurt -- Familiarity breeds attempt _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
