April 19, 2005
The DRM Experience
When I received my new cellphone I eagerly set out and bought a handful of great Java games, among them the magnificent Alpha Wing. The games arrived through a service message from my provider and played without problems. The world was good.
A few weeks later I had to patch my phone's firmware in order to fix some annoying bugs. In the process I lost every game I bought because purchased games are stored in some super-secure place you cannot backup.
I do not buy games for my phone anymore.
On a summer trip through the Aquitaine the Girl and I had a sudden craving for a particular piece of music. Luckily she had purchased the respective album and brought it along for the trip. We already imagined ourselves rocking out to the music with an Atlantic breeze blowing through our hair, but the car's CD player could not handle the copy-protected disc.
I do not buy copy-protected music anymore.
(Epilogue: Before we began our trip to France, the Girl made me a copy of the mentioned album. I happened to bring along the copy. The car would happily play the copy. We got the message.)
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