Respect the consumers!

I’m not a “pirate”, I’m a dinosaur who buy disk!! Of course I use peer-to-peer but especially to find untraceable movie, radio broadcastings… etc. I would like to tell you a story to explain my point of view as far as DRM is concerned. First, I have to explain: DRM or Digital Right Manager is a program, used by Majors in order to forbid the copy of music and movies downloaded on the Web. But DRM is putted on the disk you are supposed to buy instead of obtaining it free thanks to P2P…

Once upon a time, a young woman listened to an old song of Aretha Franklin. She discovered Jazz music: it was amazing, better than all she has listened for all her life! (I exaggerate but story are always too much) She decided that her life would not have any more significance without a disk of Jazz music. She went to store, bought it and ran at home to listen to the disk named “Lady Jazz”…

A terrible thing occurred: the disk did not work!! She tried on her computer, in her car… it was impossible and she was desperate! Then, a charming prince arrived (in fact it was a friend of her) he explained that her disk was protected by a program named “Copy Controlled” and could not be support by all music players. The prince was also a geek. He saved the desperate young woman while pirating the disk on the Web. They did not marry and have not children…

The moral of the story is that DRM is not the solution: pirates can break the protection and legitimate purchasers are not sure to be able to use their disk. Often, they spend money, are disgusted by the Major’s philosophy and become “pirate” too…

DRM is not the solution, Major have to respect the consumers!