[John (Unverified) Posted Feb 14th 2007 8:16PM]

I love how a company wants you to pay for their intellectual property that assists users in freely trading other companies' intellectual property. How happy would they be if I sold software for half the price that allowed users to get around paying for their software? If you're gonna do stuff like this, you shouldn't be making money off it.

[Superman (Unverified) Posted Feb 15th 2007 4:37PM]

Blah, blah, blah! DRM SUCKS!!! I don't pay for DRM, I pay for the music and the movies and I'm TIRED of efforts to keep me from being able to back-up my own collection. I have a TV and a computer and a receiver that all use either component video or DVI connection, but NO, now we have HDMI. And WHY? All because they want to close the so-called "analog gap". HDMI isn't any better than component for video and coax for audio, but it allows them to address DRM keys and control content. So, I've got to upgrade my TV, my receiver and my computer to us HDMI if I wanna do Blu-Ray and HD-DVD. It sucks and all for what? The MICRO amount that is traded online. They alienate SO MANY users, legitimate users so they can shut down the TINY amount that trade in illegal stuff. If you compare the amount of DVDs sold versus the amount of movies traded illegally it is a drop in the bucket! They are SO greedy! They sell DVDs for $20 and $30, yet it only cost about $1 for the entire DVD, that includes the disk, the box and any other packaging. So they are making millions, BILLIONS of dollars and yet, that isn't enough, no... they will spend millions of dollars that come from legitimate sales (read: profits from US) to include this DRM crap that keeps out so many users, Macintosh users, Linux users, and anyone not using the latest version of Windows. They are greedy and deserve for someone to hack their DRM and allow *someone* to enjoy the product without their crappy DRM.