Comments on: Wacky Protests In Washington Stir the Masses

By: Alex M

Alex M — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 17:38:15 +0000

All of the big recording labels are spending bilions every year developing new products and it is really sad that DRM is the best they come up with. In my opinion they should distribute music for
free or next to free to be able to make and split the profit of concerts, merchandise, ringtones, movies etc with artists.

By: ECA

ECA — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 20:20:04 +0000

considering this post was stated almost 1 year ago…. Nice comment.

By: Ken Dryden

Ken Dryden — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 20:03:20 +0000

Three years ago, as the United States swept into Iraq, I wrote a book titled “Colossus,” which offered a somber prediction, summed up in its subtitle, “The Rise and Fall of the American Empire.” My argument was that the United States was unlikely to be as successful or as enduring an imperial power as its British predecessor for three reasons: its financial deficit, its attention deficit and, perhaps most surprisingly, its manpower deficit. Rather cruelly, I compared the American empire to a “strategic couch-potato … consuming on credit, reluctant to go to the front line [and] inclined to lose interest in protracted undertakings.”

By: Thomas Jones

Thomas Jones — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 19:02:43 +0000

Not only that, but the happy companies that hire those last six unemployed people – - – and the companies looking for the remaining 1.8 million that don’t exist? Like, hey, how do you fill 10 million jobs with 8.2 million people?

By: Jeremy - latest immigration news

Jeremy - latest immigration news — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 13:26:17 +0000

Haha that’s fantastic.

As long as people jam their fingers in their ears and go “nyaah nyaah can’t hear you” whilst we piss all over the environment, wacky protests are going to be needed to raise public awareness.

By: Maximum

Maximum — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 14:13:48 +0000

Another correction is required. It was not “slaying,” but rather the first genocide of the 20th Century.

But then, the LAT is used to correcting its corrections. Or am I missing something?

By: david

david — Thu, 25 May 2006 13:11:13 +0000

Security (DRM included) is inversely proportional to TRUST. The more security that creeps into our lives is a result of deteriorating trust. Why that trust is breaking down is basically that people whether the rank-and-file or powers-that-be ARE GREEDY.

By: AM

AM — Thu, 25 May 2006 00:06:22 +0000

OK, it might just be the humidity but when I read:
If I poped in a disc someday…
I got this vision of XVI in his miter with an enormous disc descending from above: New in 2005! The first slot-loading pope! (Now, now, people, keep it clean.)

Wait, maybe it’s the beer.

By: John

John — Wed, 24 May 2006 23:21:48 +0000

Since there is media out there prottected by DRM, and future media that will be protected by DRM. Why would anyone want an OS that was unable to haddle that media? Protesting MSFT in regards to DRM is rediculus. Vista does not force anyone to use DRM music, movies… but allows people who have media that is DRMed to death to be able to access it.
If I poped in a disc someday and MSFT Windows said “We are sorry but the media you have inserted is prottected by DRM. As people protested us wearing hazmats suits we decided you did not want the ability to access the data on this media.” I would be upset, the same with if I did it with MAC OS.
If they are anti DRm they should go protest the companies who want to use DRM to protect their IP… Not the people who make an os that allows you to access it.
Now if MSFT or Apple made an OS that only allowed you to use DRMed stuff, it would be another story.