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This is a comment on news story: Intel to cut Linux out of the content market
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Re: Intel cuts Linux (?)	by: pinniped
Hey, I'm already on AMD64. For at least 15 years now, AMD have been superior to Intel in engineering, performance, and price. (Well, recently I noticed Intel are dumping their garbage on the market at a price lower than AMD!) Starting last year I had accidentally bought a few CDs with 'copy protection' - they almost give me a heart attack when I plug them into my computer and the drive makes awful noises because the silly thing is trying to move the head to a position which is somewhere in the asteroid belt (thanks to 'DRM' putting bad information onto the tracks!). I have returned all these discs - but guess what - the retailers don't want to know why the customers return the products! So I have to write one letter to the record company and one letter to the retailer! Talk about bad customer management - they genuinely don't want to know what the customer wants! It is unfortunate - there is a lot of music out there that I would listen to if it didn't have DRM. Am I one of those thieving bastards that don't pay for the music I listen to? No - I pay for all the albums I have - and I'm not even one of those people who (sensibly and rightfully) write their favorite tracks to a CD for their own convenience. Did all this DRM stuff put a dint in piracy? Hell no! As so many people in the industry have pointed out in numerous articles over the years - at about the time an album is released in the USA, you can get a high-quality pirate copy off the internet. The only results of DRM is to really piss off customers like myself and of course, to raise the cost of CDs because the record companies pay people to produce FAULTY products which are pretending to be CDs. I wonder if someone could sue the recording industry for creating these monstrosities that pretend to be CDs - at the expense of genuine CDs. What really gets me is that the author is exactly right about the 'sheeple'. My ex-girlfriend and her friends frequently exchange copies of CDs and she always got stuck into me when I complained (it's not hurting YOU, is it?) - and yet I get an indifferent shrug when I bring up DRM and how user's rights are being stolen from them. Her attitude - if she really likes the music and there's no other way to get it, she'll pay for it - until then, she can always get a copy from a friend or the internet, and she said she'd be quite happy with an inferior pirated copy. I mean, what sort of lame attitude is that? "Yeah, well if they screw us they screw us - what is it to you?" I swear, as a race we humans have barely lost our tails and 99% of the population actually have tails and just hide it - but they're easy to spot because they're proud to display their ignorance.