Drm Quotes

• The most common format of music on an iPod is 'stolen.'

  Steve Ballmer

  Ipods, Common, Stolen

  "Love DRM or my family starves: why Steve Ballmer doesn't Get It" by John Lettice, www.theregister.co.uk. October 7, 2004.

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• Most DRM solutions diminish the value of the product by either directly restricting a customer's use or by creating uncertainty.

  Gabe Newell

  Creating, Use, Diminish

  "Gabe Says Piracy Isn't About Price" By Colin Campbell, www.ign.com. November 25, 2011.

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• Right, and you point out something important which is that people who don’t want to pay, people who are pirates, don’t get bothered by the DRM, they go out and buy the cracked books or download the cracked books for free. It’s only people who are foolish enough to pay for them that get locked into these platforms.

  Cory Doctorow

  Book, People, Pirate

  "Interview with Cory Doctorow, Part 2: Ebooks, DRM and Universal Formats". Interview with Sara Rosso, whenihavetime.com. April 7, 2009.

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• ... the Kindle is a "roach motel" device: its license terms and DRM ensure that books can check in, but they can't check out.

  Cory Doctorow

  Book, Roaches, Checks

  Cory Doctorow (2011). “Context”, p.102, Tachyon Publications

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• I believe that online paid content hasn't worked for general circulation newspapers because consumers weren't ready for it, because the implementation did not deliver enough value, because content was typically the same as in the print version, and because much of the material was being syndicted by the papers to other publishers or was not protected with DRM technologies to exclude use by others.

  Robert G. Picard

  Believe, Technology, Use

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• It's abundantly clear by now that no DRM system can stop serious pirates. A DRM system that stops serious pirates, and simultaneously gives broad leeway to ordinary users, is even harder to imagine.

  Edward Felten

  Giving, Pirate, Ordinary

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• I'm not a lawyer I'm a kind of mouthpiece/activist type, though occasionally they shave me and stuff me into my Bar Mitzvah suit and send me to a standards body or the UN to stir up trouble. I spend about three weeks a month on the road doing completely weird stuff like going to Microsoft to talk about DRM.

  Cory Doctorow

  Microsoft, Body, Stuff

  Cory Doctorow (2008). “Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future”

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