[CS-FSLUG] Real Player Rhapsode for Linux

[Nathan T.]

On 1/21/06, Timothy Butler <tbutler at ofb.biz> wrote:
>         I don't like DRM either, but honestly, I wonder if it is possible to
> give it up in a society that most people think it is perfectly OK to
> pirate software and music.

It's hard to allow DRM Tim, especially in a world where Canadians are
taxed for music downloads whether they engage in that or not and still
someone tries their best to word the law so they can have that tax and
still make file sharing illegal, it's a win-win for the greedy
government and recording industry. Need I remind you of Sony and their
rootkit, how about Apple and only allowing region codes to change five
times, or twenty five times max depending on the mood of the nearest
Apple store staff every time you bring your mac in to have the DVD
drive reset, often they won't do it. How about the CD's I buy at local
stores which I cannot convert into mp3s and oggs without getting
beeping sounds and other audio distortions.

The last time I purchased music was a very long time ago, and I don't
plan on paying for any music media that includes some form of DRM, I
won't be treated like a criminal when I know I'm not one. Right now I
get by on Internet radio, sometimes I rip the streams temporarily so I
can listen to them on my mp3 player, but I don't keep them that long.
In the recording industry's ideal world you pay as much money as they
can get out of you for just one song, as it is you almost have to buy
the same song several times over for each media you want it on. Is
that fair use once you've payed for it? Absolutely not! Allowing the
recording industry to use DRM and other such measures is like having
criminals as guards in a prison where only the innocent are locked up.