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Don't buy blueray discs and don't use Midori, don't use any content at all that is DRM encumbered.

Yes, that will limit your choice but so what, if enough people do it the coin will drop.

That's my solution to this whole DRM issue and I've yet to find a 'must-see' thing that was DRM encumbered.

Copyright law gives rights-holders all kinds of options, and digital tools have given them options to make it harder to do some things that are not per-se violations of the law but that are also not explicitly granted as rights.

And that's a huge difference from a legal perspective.




What you don't realize is that the solution you suggest won't work if famous people like TBL publicly support DRM.

People wouldn't care about your opinions much, some would even call them dumb just like you call others opinions dumb. But when a respectable person like TBL says something people tend to take his words seriously.

This is why people were worried about what TBL did. A very few would have cared if you or I did such a thing.


You can also stop driving if you support the environment and stop buying phones if you care about child slavery and stop using electricity if you don't want nuclear wastes.

Personally I stopped eating meat, and just this is quite a cost in additional constraints in your life, because society is designed in a way and doing something different requires extra efforts.

Yes, boycotting something you don't want is a good move, but if you apply it to all things you want to protest against you will no longer be part of society.

So you can't only rely on that. It can't be the only answer. We need to take stand to also refuse those bad moves, especially before they happen.




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