The Real Purpose of DRM

Roberto writes "Gorgeous nerd Annalee Newitz hacked a political interpretation to recent vacuum cleaner cockfights at O'Reilly's ETech: 'Hollywood corporations have finally admitted that the real reason they built digital restriction management (DRM) software into PVRs and DVD players was to stop geeks from turning their recording devices into back-alley combat machines. You haven't seen ugly until you've watched what a DVD player without DRM can do to a TiVo.' Don't try to even think of this at home."

this is stoopid

[Anonymous Coward]

i want more ponies and barbie
i dont like the othe r stupid stories. :( :( :(:(((

Posted March 14, 2006.

[PhYrE2k2]

from TFA: Posted March 14, 2006.

Re:Gorgeous?

[1u3hr]

Some more images here [google.com]; though sadly the one in bikini is not her. I'm afraid on the "hot or not" scale, it's "not".

Re:Gorgeous?

[Anonymous Coward]

I'd hit it.

...What?

Re:Meta-commentary: "Gorgeous" really relevant?

[svkal]

Fair point. But if the editors do occasionally edit(though I do know that's in question), they did make a choice by leaving it in there. Furthermore, they accepted the story, so it's not unreasonable to say that they have a bit of editorial responsibility.

Re:It's official: Slashdot has jumped the shark

[revscat]

The debate is not and never has been about whether or not she is hot. It's about how that is even relevant.