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Re:Amazon takes away access to purchased Christmas movie dur... by NoPiece on Monday December 16, 2013 @12:16AM (#6913059)
Except with technologies like Cinavia watermarking now intruding, DRM free rips may not actually be DRM free. That may keep your grandchildren from viewing some of your content.
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Re:Amazon takes away access to purchased Christmas movie dur... by PeterisP on Monday December 16, 2013 @04:40AM (#6913717)
Watermarking is not DRM - any playing software that 'respects' watermarking (or, say, region locking) and lets it interfere with content playback is simply defective.

That's why it's cruicial to have proper libre software tools for media decoding. If someone wants to implement defective-by-design features that don't do what the user wishes, then we must have the ability to destroy such features on our computing devices.

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