Macromedia Engages In DRM Strategy

[siljaline]

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...1195130,00.asp



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[Jay T. Blocksom]

On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 23:38:02 -0400, in <alt.privacy.spyware>, siljaline
<siljaline@invalid.com> wrote:
>
> http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...1195130,00.asp


<fair use>
While the flexible licensing agreement allows licenses to be
transferred between machines, the SafeCast software still writes
information to track 0 of a user's hard drive, as it does in
TurboTax.
</fair use>

Which makes it -- and, of course, any product which uses it -- an absolute
non-starter.

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safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
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[BoB]

On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 23:38:02 -0400, siljaline <siljaline@invalid.com>
wrote:

>http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...1195130,00.asp

The last paragraph in this article says, "Although few software products
today use some form of DRM, in some circles the practice is becoming the
norm. For example, some downloadable versions of Symantec's Norton
Antivirus software include DRM, which Symantec executives have claimed
is the most heavily-pirated software in the world." The pirates can have
it.

I will no longer use Norton products or anything else that involves DRM
screwing with my computer. My latest computer was offered with the XP,
Norton AV and Norton System Works installed. I said I'd buy one if they
'removed' all the Symantec programs and installed Win98SE. They did and
I bought it.

BoB

[mto]

"BoB" <rhoward30@myrealbox.com> wrote in message
news:nrelhvo57h8drecnfn4ne1hjtimeqvles7@4ax.com...
> On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 23:38:02 -0400, siljaline <siljaline@invalid.com>
> wrote:
>
> >http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...1195130,00.asp
>
> The last paragraph in this article says, "Although few software products
> today use some form of DRM, in some circles the practice is becoming the
> norm. For example, some downloadable versions of Symantec's Norton
> Antivirus software include DRM, which Symantec executives have claimed
> is the most heavily-pirated software in the world." The pirates can have
> it.
>
> I will no longer use Norton products or anything else that involves DRM
> screwing with my computer. My latest computer was offered with the XP,
> Norton AV and Norton System Works installed. I said I'd buy one if they
> 'removed' all the Symantec programs and installed Win98SE. They did and
> I bought it.
>
> BoB
>

Cool for you I managed not to get stuck with anything whatever
Symantec - or for that matter anything other than the XP but as I had to
have a new machine NOW to deal with a hardware crash and burn and it had to
run Windows, that I got stuck with. They DID take off the $100 or so price
difference in the OS cost, right?