From Boing Boing -

Today is October 3, the International Day Against DRM — the first global day where people rise up and say no to anti-copying technology that treats you like a crook. Remember, DRM doesn’t stop “piracy” — the only people who get DRM infections are people who don’t pirate their media. You get DRM by buying your movies, music, games and books through authorized channels — the stuff you download from P2P or buy off of a blanket at a flea-market has already had the DRM cracked off of it. They say that DRM “keeps honest people honest” — but all it does is keep honest people in chains.

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I understand the industry-wide “need” to protect their content, I really do…but I also know that “resistance is futile”.  There is no real way to stop piracy, that doesn’t mean they can’t lessen the amount of pirated goods, but DRM doesn’t do that.  There isn’t any DRM out there that hasn’t been cracked within hours of being released into the wild…and let’s face it, the kind of people that don’t have a problem pirating your wares, certainly don’t have a problem cracking them either.

Piracy isn’t the primary thing affecting DVD sales, Movie Ticket sales and music sales…releasing CRAP is the primary problem with the industry.  Stop producing crap, releasing crap, and promoting crap, and people will go to the theaters, they will buy the DVDs and they will buy the CDs.  Seriously…give it a try…it’ll work.