DRM and the Movie and Music Industry

The Movie and Music industry feel they are losing sales to illegal copying. They blame that as the major reason for all of their recent declines in sales.

Here's why sales are really declining:

Movies:
The current movie experience suxors and I mean really suxors! I won't go to the movies because of the noisy people talking, the cells phones going off, the lights from cell phones as texting is going on. In addition, my HD TV has a better picture and my sound system sounds nearly as good and NetFlix delivers to my house for a lot less per movie.

Music:
There are very few new bands out there that are any good. I mean how many albums have you bought recently where you only like 1 or 2 songs on the whole thing. It's just better to go to iTunes or any of you other favorite music download sites and just get the song that doesn't suck. I mean that too... not the good song, the song that doesn't suck.

Bottom line is instead of making a good product or experience, i.e. fixing the real problem, they found a scapegoat and blame it on "illegally" copied music or movies.

HD-DVD DRM Crack (and maybe BluRay too)

This article was all over the place in my usual haunts on the web. So I thought I'd chime in and spread the word too.

Over in the Doom9 forums, one of its users discovered the crack for HD-DVD DRM and posted it. This was in the beginning of February. This may also work for BluRay DRM.

You can read the forum post at Doom9 or on this blog's title to get all the juicy info.

Have fun with it!!!