What do you get when you cross Leo Laporte’s Audible sponsorship on This Week in Tech and Cory Doctorow’s militant anti-DRM stance? TWiT 124. Priceless.
About 42 minutes in, Leo goes to plug Audible and Cory tells the story of using three computers in parallel to de-DRM his audiobook collection when he switched to Linux.
Oh, but it gets better. The standard line of “but, it’s not Audible, it’s the publishers” is tossed out. Usually, that’s a deal killer. Everyone says, “Oh yah, the evil publishers.. DRM is bad but, they’ll learn eventually”, and the world remains just as dim as it was at the beginning of the given conversation. Not today. Cory continues his anti-DRM assault by explaining that Audible refused to distribute his latest book DRM free, in essence refusing to distribute it.
Still not good enough? About 5 mintues later, John Dvorak wakes from his nap to discover what anti-DRM advocates have been screaming for years; The super copyright. It’s really quite priceless. The loveable tech curmudgeon exclaims, “Then what good is DRM?” and, “What can we do about this!”
Please, don’t buy me any Christmas presents. TWiT 124 was plenty.
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