It’s only Monday, but someone in the Tech Sector has already found a way to make my blood boil. Specifically, Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer<\/b>, who had this to say at an event in London:<\/p>\n
“We’ve had DRM in Windows for years,” Ballmer said. “The most common format of music on an iPod is stolen.” (Full article here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n No, you vacuous moron, the most common format of music on an iPod is a format that has been around for years, is easy to use, and is essentially ubiquitous among end-users.<\/p>\n It’s called fair use<\/a>, you mouth-breather. Consumers don’t dislike (or try to get around) DRM because it’s difficult to use – consumers avoid DRM because it infringes on their fair use rights. That’s why Apple’s<\/a> DRM works – it’s practically invisible, and doesn’t limit my ability to listen to music that I own<\/i>.<\/p>\n You know what, Ballmer? Keep “improving” Windows DRM. And you’ll keep driving users to Apple. And in the meantime, revel in the fact that you’ve been named Douchebag of the Week.<\/p>\n (Yes, I had a bad day at work today…why do you ask?)<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s only Monday, but someone in the Tech Sector has already found a way to make my blood boil. Specifically, Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer, who had this to say at an event in London: “We’ve had DRM in Windows for years,” Ballmer said. “The most common format of music on an iPod is stolen.” (Full article […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hxip-aw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}