Editorial: For the umpteenth time, copy 'protection' only hurts people who a...

Editorial: For the umpteenth time, copy 'protection' only hurts people who actually buy your product

via Engadget by Paul Miller on 9/25/10

It's been said so many times, but I just got stung hard by the DRM bug, and since there's a "Senior Associate Editor" next to my name somewhere I get to complain about it. Now, if you're a regular consumer with a modicum of common sense, nothing I'm going to say here will come as a surprise or revelation. You're welcome to come along for the ride, but I'm pointing my quivering pen today at the media execs and their willing technologist accomplices that have the nerve in 2010 to enforce HDCP and other completely inane DRM and copy protection schemes to "protect" their content from theft:

You idiots.

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