Tag: DRM

I protested BBC iPlayer in 2007, and I don't regret it.

5 March 2014

During the summer holidays of 2007, I was a teenage sailing instructor who was volunteering locally, to teach younger teens how to sail (better) for a week. On Tuesday, I skived off teaching, jumped on a train to Manchester and changed my life forever. But that's not the beginning… A few months earlier I was […]

The pragmatic view on why DRM'd media will slowly die out

15 August 2012

I recently read the article on BoingBoing about the Hachette publisher being upset that some of it's authors who were also using the Tor publisher in different territories, would be releasing their works DRM-free. I also saw some defence that stated that "the Hachette sales strategy with DRM works really well". Let me explain why […]

Real World DRM

15 July 2008

Ben Griffiths wrote to the Open Rights Group discussion mailing list a few weeks ago: I want to share a DRM story. I was in Curry's in Plymouth a couple of weeks ago. A man was arguing loudly with one of the staff, his ten-year old daughter in tears at his side. From what I […]