Re:UltraViolet DRM will close on July 31, 2019
by zozbot123 on Thursday January 31, 2019 @12:40PM
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A good start, but it's not enough. DRM schemes are designed to take away your fair and lawful rights as a participant in the media ecosystem. Every single one of them should be shut down.
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Re:UltraViolet DRM will close on July 31, 2019
by freedomben on Thursday January 31, 2019 @01:06PM
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I hate DRM and think it's a pernicious evil. I boycott DRM-ed media, with rare exceptions in cases where I can rip/re-encode and one vendor holds a monopoly.
That said, while the impact of DRM is a huge reduction in personal freedom, I don't think it's accurate or fair to say:
> DRM schemes are designed to take away your fair and lawful rights as a participant in the media ecosystem.
They are designed to protect the copyright holder from infringement in the form of illegal sharing. They just don't care enough about the impact on users to counteract their desire to fight "piracy."