xkcd Against DRM

xkcd's Steal This Comic anti-DRM post.

I think Richard M. Stallman would agree with xkcd: DRM is evil. It’s bad for both customers and content creators — even Hilary Rosen and Steve Jobs have their doubts about it.

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Posted October 15, 2008 by Casey
Categories: Copyrights & Intellectual Property, Dispatches, Technology. Tags: , , , , , .

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  1. Comment by Peter Murray on October 16, 2008 1:28 pm

    I think your copy-and-paste of the image missed the “title” attribute of the original, which makes the statement in the cartoon even more pointed:

    I spent more time trying to get an audible.com audio book playing than it took to listen to the book. I have lost every other piece of DRM-locked music I have paid for.

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  2. Pingback by » Video DRM Hammering Legal Consumers MaisonBisson.com on November 24, 2008 12:40 pm

    [...] anything, this appears to offer more proof of the XKCD argument: if you want digital media you can count on, pirate it. Related:Dear SteveEMI and Apple/iTunes [...]

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