Comment Like alcohol locks in cars, like DRM in techs. (Score 1) 582
This DRM business is kind of like the discussion about putting alcohol locks in cars.
Imagine you buy a car, using your hard-earned money.
Imagine you can't start that car, because the car knows you're drunk.
Do you know what most people say right about now?
They say, "Well, that's good, it's safe! We'll have less accidents!"
"We should implement it, make it law!"
What they're missing is to think one step further.
That one step will bring you this:
You bought a car, with YOUR money, and you aren't allowed to drive it.
That's the big POINT, hurling itself into the faces of everyone hearing the discussion.
If you aren't allowed to drive your car, or if the car companies think you'll drive drunk ANYHOW, they shouldn't sell you the car in the first place.
It's the same thing with the DRM.
People will see the Dauntless, Ravishing, Magnificence called DRM.
"It makes our computers safe! We won't have to worry about viruses as much now!
I mean, we aren't pirates!"
"We should implement it, make it law!"
And what they'll miss, is the same things as they'll miss if the alcohol locks are implemented in cars.
But, oh, I would say it would be a tad too late to whine about it AFTERWARDS, when it's already a standard.
So, like, what are the smart costumers going to do when all those masses of consumers buy before they think?
Before we, the little minority, get our voices heard, it's too late. And we'll have to resort to hacking, etc, and we'll probably be regarded as pirates anyhow.
If not criminals, depending on how fast they'll implement this great thing into our nice books of law.
I mean, everyone since Stalin and waaay before knows that "the masses don't think, and those who do are too few," or something like that.
Why should it, in the end, be different with the binary world?
Imagine you buy a car, using your hard-earned money.
Imagine you can't start that car, because the car knows you're drunk.
Do you know what most people say right about now?
They say, "Well, that's good, it's safe! We'll have less accidents!"
"We should implement it, make it law!"
What they're missing is to think one step further.
That one step will bring you this:
You bought a car, with YOUR money, and you aren't allowed to drive it.
That's the big POINT, hurling itself into the faces of everyone hearing the discussion.
If you aren't allowed to drive your car, or if the car companies think you'll drive drunk ANYHOW, they shouldn't sell you the car in the first place.
It's the same thing with the DRM.
People will see the Dauntless, Ravishing, Magnificence called DRM.
"It makes our computers safe! We won't have to worry about viruses as much now!
I mean, we aren't pirates!"
"We should implement it, make it law!"
And what they'll miss, is the same things as they'll miss if the alcohol locks are implemented in cars.
But, oh, I would say it would be a tad too late to whine about it AFTERWARDS, when it's already a standard.
So, like, what are the smart costumers going to do when all those masses of consumers buy before they think?
Before we, the little minority, get our voices heard, it's too late. And we'll have to resort to hacking, etc, and we'll probably be regarded as pirates anyhow.
If not criminals, depending on how fast they'll implement this great thing into our nice books of law.
I mean, everyone since Stalin and waaay before knows that "the masses don't think, and those who do are too few," or something like that.
Why should it, in the end, be different with the binary world?
