New CD won't play

[Kurt Wall]

Feigning erudition, Tim Wunder wrote:
% On Saturday 11 January 2003 11:07 am, someone claiming to be David A. Bandel 
% wrote:

[...]

% > DRM (digital rights manglement, RIAA digitally mangling your rights).
% > Take it back and tell them it's defective, you can't play it in your
% > computer's CD.  The only way to fight DRM is refuse to accept delibrately
% > broken products.
% >
% > 
% <sigsnip>
% I tend to agree, but wouldn't another way to fight DRM be by rendering the 
% technology to "digitally [mangle] your rights" ineffective?

Perhaps. But, because RIAA is mostly concerned with money, depriving
them of it seems more effective and less likely to run the risk of
a DMCA prosecution for circumventing the restriction.

Kurt
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