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[andrewducker]

"Michael Shermer on strange beliefs" (Watch on YouTube)

via broin, and far more fun that it probably should have been. I blame the return of Snowpocalypse.

Comments

[dreema.livejournal.com]

cool

some people have way too much time on their hands though ;)

[broin.livejournal.com]

:p

[stillcarl.livejournal.com]

"This video contains content from Sony Music Entertainment. It is restricted from playback on certain sites."

I thought you didn't approve of DRM! ;)

[andrewducker]

I don't approve of it - but I don't avoid anything that has DRM on it. I just refuse to buy files with DRM on them.

So I'm happy to have DVDs/Blu-Rays, because my disc will not be revoked. And I don't mind the VoD system my cable company uses, because I'm renting a movie, not buying it. But I won't pay for music, video or text files that can be revoked later on, or can't be changed to work with new playback systems. This is because I don't want to be stuck with a file that I can't play/watch/read any more.

If there was an open DRM standard that couldn't be revoked then I could be tempted by that - but I can't see such a thing coming about.

Meantime, you can just click on the link underneath that warning to watch the video on YouTube, which is chock-full of DRM.

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[andrewducker]

I use http://keepvid.com