[livius]

There was a very good article this morning in - of all places - the Wall Street Journal, regarding copy protected MP3 files and CDs. Their solution: refuse to buy them. Nobody should be able to "sell" you a CD/MP3 file that not only can't be copied, but can only be played on certain machines, or played only a certain number of times, etc., etc.

Time for music consumers to just say NO!

[July 4th]

Time for music consumers to just say NO!

What peeves me even more is the Region coding on DVDs. If I buy a DVD in England and want to play it on a US machine, I can't. Why was this a good idea??

Oh well, no problem...that's been hacked too. Many of the Chinese DVD players can be made "region-free" with minimal effort.

[the]

I guess the whole DIVX debacle didn't teach them anything.

When people buy a copy of something, they expect to own
that copy free and clear.