By Jo Best
Published: Friday 02 September 2005
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Name
Dennis McDonald
Location
Alexandria VA
Occupation
consultant and blogger
Comment
According to some of the reports I've read, "breaking" the DRM to, say, play a copy protected CD on a PC may actually be "illegal."
If this had been the case back in the 1960's, would it have been illegal back then to put those little yellow plastic discs with a hole in the center into a 45rpm phonograph record to make it playable on a 12" turntable? (I assume that many of the people reading this will not know what I am talking about.)
According to some of the reports I've read, "break...
Dennis McDonald
It may be time consuming but more and more people ...
Anonymous
And who's fault is it for having DRM in the first ...
John Horvatic
The real culprit here is the greediness of the rec...
Anonymous
Wrong blame. Record companies require DRM for the...
Anonymous
I am with Anonymous on this, the whole area is a c...
Simon
I also buy CD's (over 1600 at last count) and rip ...
David Howe
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