Originally posted by: Rainsford
I was wondering how long it would take this to get posted here...
Seriously, and I say this as someone who has no problem with artists and moviemakers getting paid, the DRM folks should just give it up...it's just not going to work. No matter what you come up with, some bored hacker will figure it out and release a tool that everyone and their brother can use.
I don't have that kind of talent, but I am the tinkering type. It's motivation to do something that may be an enjoyable challenge. This is where abnormalities we're ruining kids' (I mean anonymous future consumers) heads over shine. Saying it's some bored hacker completely misrepresents the kind of personality that takes on such tasks, and only bolsters the common, "they hate us 'cause they hate us," style image.
?I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.? -Nikola Tesla
Great inventor and idealist, painter, philosopher, poet, kid building a dam, or a guy with an axe to grind breaking some encryption scheme--the feeling's the same.