[mythtv-users] [OT] DRM (was Re: Yellow Dog 5.0 with PS3 as a front end?)

[Dave Sherohman]

On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 10:19:00AM -0400, Aaron Howard wrote:
> What is inherently different about DRM on video discs that separate it
> from audio discs, data discs, downloaded and/or broadcast content?
> Nothing, that's what.  ALL DRM is a horrible idea and only goes to screw
> the innocent consumer in the end.  

In principle, DRM could be used be the innocent consumer to limit the
big players' access to his personal information, thus re-establishing a
fair bit of privacy on the net.

In practice, DRM is controlled by the big players, who will only allow
it to be used to screw the innocent consumer, exactly as you've
described.

-- 
I would rather be exposed to the inconvenience attending too much Liberty
than those attending too small degree of it.
  - Thomas Jefferson