thecoalman - 7:02 am on May 2, 2007 (gmt 0)

Since you're part of the revolt, I'm just curious, why are you mad?

If that was directed at me I'm not mad, i do it the old fashion way and vote with my wallet. The only media i have payed for in the last ten years are used CD's... and no i don't pirate or download anything either although i have a strong background in video so copying anything is a trivial matter for me.

Is it that you're buying a DVD and can't copy it?

I think its the culmination of many things, the fact that you have to jump through a thousand hoops to copy something has really become a thorn in the side of many consumers and is just the beginning. Read around and you'll find the likes of the MPAA and RIAA attempt to stifle many types of technologies, if they had it their way you would have never known what a VCR is.

I respect the rights of content owners to be able to protect it and set whatever stipulations they want but I and many consumers are coming to the conclusion it's too much.

Their business model in the past has been to sell you the same thing over and over. How many different formats of your favorite album have you owned? The Internet and digital media broke that business model and DRM is the only way they can hang onto it. The kick in the teeth is they also want to add more restrictions such as the tunes you download that can only be played on the device they were downloaded too.

As far as the takedown notice as I mentioned in my other post that number has been available for months and I just checked where it was originally posted and it's still there. Perhaps that website is outside of any US jurisdiction. Still sounds to me like they just caved.

Whatever the case that is how their community feels and if you run a user contributed website you are well aware you don't want to p*** the natives off... :)

[edited by: rogerd at 6:12 pm (utc) on May 2, 2007]
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