This is something that the government is continuing to take away rights of the consumer when it the is the consumer that drives the market and makes these companies and organizations possible. So Just like Josh talk to rep in congress and make sure they know that if they don’t turn this around on all fronts they won’t be getting your votes. It’s the only thing that congress understands especially about technology is “VOTES”. Unfortunately these same people have to make the choices for the rest of us in what we see and how we can do a great many things. From internet radio to simply playing a cd/dvd on the computer.

First of all, no, don’t let them spend billions of dollars to let hobiests break it for pennies. That billion dollar experiment is something we have to pay for because not only is there the cost of research going into it, there is also the cost of implementation on each individual unit.

If we don’t buy things that have DRM built in, then maybe the industries will get the hint. Heck, I haven’t bought a single piece of music in years.

Recently my folks had trouble with two older DVD players trying to hook into a brand new LCD TV. One of the component high definition signals wasn’t accepted at all by the TV, the other one only displayed in black and white. I’m not sure, but this may have been caused by the fact that it was an HD signal going into a box that has DHCP built in.

I’ll bring that up more in a subsequent post relating directly to DHCP.

Generally speaking, I think that the biggest thing that drives people to piracy is wanting a product without having to pay for it.

Then again, people sometimes pirate things that just aren’t available for purchase yet. Technically speaking, fan subbed Anime is piracy.