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I doubt that's the only reason. The picketing nerds in hazmat suits were probably folks from the FSF, and they are opposed to DRM on principle, and I believe th
by tjr 16y ago
I doubt that's the only reason. The picketing nerds in hazmat suits were probably folks from the FSF, and they are opposed to DRM on principle, and I believe that would have been shouting the same principles whether if pirated music was available and DRM-free or not.
- pyre 16y agoPersonally, I think that piracy had more to do with the downfall of DRM than protesters in haz-mat suits. Do you really think that the RIAA would have cared about them? Do you really think that those protesters would have stopped teens and 20-somethings from buying music? Piracy becoming popular among that demographic did more to achieve this end than those protesters did.
- tjr 16y agoI can only speculate. FSF propaganda influenced me as a teenager. I too would reckon that piracy played a larger role; whatever smaller role things like protesters played may have been useful in articulating the problems that prompted piracy to occur.