Dr. Grace Agnew - Restrictions of Digital Rights Management

[f00dl3]

I think the last part of the video highlights the main flaw in DRM systems. You literally have to pay for a song4 times and spend almost half the cost of a CD in order to legally play it on your computer (first purchase), your laptop (2nd license), your phone (3rd license), your iPod (4th license), and if you want to listen to it in your car you have to either burn it to a CD or "circumvent" copyright to save it as a non-DRM MP3 to put on USB thumb drive (if your car has a USB port like mine)

[lunesoft]

To import my dvds onto my media centre, i need to circumvent the copy protection ( break the law ). DRM made me a criminal. DRM was a massive inconvenience to me as a paying customer. I later decided to bin the DVD, and steal it off the internet, DRM was a piece of cake for me as a thief. If i have to steal it to watch it, why bother buying the dvd.. waste of plastic.