Filed in archive Privacy & Security by Marc on February 17, 2006

Here is more DiaRIAA.

David Berlind, executive editor at ZDNet, calls music industry-mandated DRM (Digital Rights Management) CRAP in this video.

CRAP stands for Content, Restriction, annulment, and Protection. Why is DRM CRAP? Because "once you've bought music or other content to play on one device, it won't play on any other device because of the proprietary layer of CRAP."

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