I fully agree with parent. It would be nice if we could actually have intelligent debate on television instead of this bogus, polarizing crap. I do not like to listen to MSNBC either for the same reason. I apologize for the vagueness of the example I am providing here but I think it illustrates the point: Some time ago Mr. Beck talked about a group that was going door to door in some Northeastern state and promoting the use of energy efficient lightbulbs. The claim was that the energy savings would be the equivalent of taking 200,000 cars off the road. Mr. Beck's objection to this was: "I know, how about instead of taking cars of the road, we keep them on the road, with 200,000 American workers who use them to commute to and from work".

This calls for a car analogy. Using DRM to stop piracy is like dumping sawdust in with your oil to fix a knock. Sure, the knock might go away for a little while, but at the end of the day you have done far more damage to your car than you would have if you had left it alone.
People may not have an alternative to DRM for stopping piracy, but DRM only stops the most casual of pirates and causes undue harm to legitimate customers.

That is why I always vote for "other". It allows me to change my mind without screwing up the poll results.

And outside of all *that* his name is Klaatu

Yeah, sorry about that but I did not mean to imply that the parent was not funny. It seemed the most logical place to attach my experiment.

I have a theory: No matter how not-funny a post is, if it mentions Cowboy Neal then it will get modded up to at least a 4.

This post itself will prove or disprove my theory.