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Story: Linux 'needs DRM support' for consumer success

Posted by: Sum Yung Gai (Friday 7 April 2006, 7:18 PM)

I echo the first two posters here. Digital Restrictions Management and Treacherous Computing will end up on my computer over my dead body. If studios insist on putting DRM on their content such that I cannot play it on my truly Free platforms of choice (both GNU/Linux and OpenBSD at the moment), then I simply will not view that content. It is MY choice.

Any time I see any "Windows Media only" content, I treat it like the bubonic plague and avoid it as such. Same applies for RealMedia. I grudgingly tolerate .MOV (the older formats) because there are Free Software players for it that use Free Software (usually GPL'd) codecs.

WE HAVE THE CHOICE TO SAY NO. WE MUST EXERCISE IT. Pure and simple.