ZDNet have published a rather amusing video be-moaning the ever encroaching spectre of Digital Rights Management - aka DRM.  Rather than accepting the lingo del MPAA and RIAA, ZDNet chief editor David Berlind adopts a new moniker - CRAP. Standing for Content, Restriction, Annulment and Protection. Berlind outlines the problem with different content providers using different CRAP mechanisms.

" And guess what? If you try to connect these three universes, they don't connect. Doesn't happen. Sorry. Nada. This music won't play here. This music won't play here. And this music won't play here. That to me is a problem. That's why I say that all these devices, for example, the iPods that you buy out in the stores today, are a load of CRAP. I'm not going to buy any of this CRAP. Stop buying this CRAP. Don't buy any technology that has CRAP in it, because all it's going to do is make it impossible for you to take the content that you're paying good money for and play it anywhere you want."

HOLY CRAP! :)

Glad to see that more people are talking about DRM and it's restrictions on your freedom. I think as time moves on there is going to be a very interesting battle between the media companies and the customers. Whatever happened to the customer is always right? Aren't these media companies rich enough already? They are spending so much money on this technology and in the end, it's hurting them...

Great news, hope they put starforce invasive drivers down in the drain too...

F*CKIN A!!!!

Someone as big as ZDNet making a statement like that might actually have some sort of effect. Lets burn DRM to the ground and let "fair use" be born again from the ashes.