Actually, the best way to fight this would be to fund people to break the DRM blob.
What better way to drive home the uselessness of DRM than to have zillions of people having an automatic plugin that bypasses DRM everywhere it runs?
What better way to drive home the uselessness of DRM than to have zillions of people having an automatic plugin that bypasses DRM everywhere it runs?
Fighting this fight on technical grounds alone is a surefire way to accelerate the inevitability of locked down computing platforms that restrict what the owner is capable of.
I can't say from experience how difficult it is to break and implement the DRM used on the web, but if it's anything like the DRM used in videogames, it should be doable in a couple weeks (with enough motivation).
No technical solution required.
The ad-blocking plugins are so successful because their so easy to get. If something's illegal to distribute, then it's sufficiently inconvenient to obtain (tormenting, etc.) that most people won't bother.
God damn, get some self control people.
In some fields DRM is known to be bad and I have excellent competitors making top quality experiences without DRM.
Gaming, and particularly strategy games have a glut of amazing content like this.
In Film though my choices are pay-per-performance(Which I have gleefully several times for Ultron already), or accept that the best work in genres I enjoy is behind DRM.
In Music I've no idea, I honestly just rent access to music without ads from google, and play whatever the playlist generator comes up with.
Of course it can, that's at your sole discretion. If it will not be, that's a personal decision, but game of thrones is not oxygen, it's a TV show.
You could always take up hiking, if nothing else.
It's clear you advocate a different set of priorities. That's fine, but pretending that differing priorities are the same as a lack of self-control is dismissive, and annoying. Particularly when you seem to advocate a complete boycott of all companies that make use of DRM at all.
I have a quite lovely bound set of game of thrones. It's totally DRM free ;)
You're quite right about hiking though, my sanity and health would both probably benfit from the increased activity and reduced screen-time.
It is the same. You know that DRM is not a good thing. Your tolerance towards it is obviously better than mine (or you haven't yet invested and been bitten), but I have yet to meet anyone other than content company execs who says DRM is an objectively good thing.
If even 1 in 10 customers said "If a piece of content contains DRM, I will not buy it unless it is on sale", there would be no DRM. You don't even have to refuse to buy it, you just have to consider it defective goods with the associated drop in value that implies.
You're one of the vast majority who cannot, or will not, resist the urge to buy, buy, buy, even when you know that a little patience would kill a system that is actively hostile to you, and your justification is that you rank "would I enjoy it?" over "is buying it actively pushing an agenda that will harm me?" on importance.
You're a junkie, and like most junkies your habit is harming not just yourself but everyone around you, and only the dealer is better off.