How To Punish Your Customers, The People Who Pay For Your Palaces

DRM is your punishment for being a paying customer.  It’s certainly not meant to deal with actual criminals; they’ll get around it regardless.  Rather, DRM is the proverbial guilty until proven innocent.  And more like guilty until proven guilty, because you’ve already given money for the piece of shit zeros and ones, now it’s simply a matter of time before you break the law by breaking the fucking DRM, so you can use the piece of shit zeros and ones as you see fit.  It’s yours after all.

Or maybe it’s time to just stop fucking giving money for the piece of shit.  BitTorrent, I hear, is a snazzy little piece of software goodness that allows you to…you fucking know what it does.  I think “stealing” it, then donating some money directly to the artist is a good system.

So far in my lifetime, I’ve paid for and downloaded one movie from iTunes, Louis CK’s Hilarious.  It’ll be the last, because now I have to join the digital criminal underworld to break the fucking DRM so I can consume it as I please.

Thank you God for giving us greedy corporate America.