{"id":145,"date":"2006-01-22T05:07:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-22T03:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dionaea.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/01\/22\/a-call-to-boycot-cds\/"},"modified":"2024-01-19T14:26:25","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T13:26:25","slug":"a-call-to-boycot-cds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dionaea.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/01\/22\/a-call-to-boycot-cds\/","title":{"rendered":"A call to boycot CDs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Byrne is a musician. As a musician, the DRM-schemes are set out to protect his CDs from being pirated, so that he won&#8217;t lose any money. Thus, he must love DRM, right?<\/p>\n<p>Well &#8211; maybe not. In his <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20230803222948\/http:\/\/journal.davidbyrne.com\/\">journal<\/a>, he start the latest entry by encouraging us to <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20230325105913\/http:\/\/journal.davidbyrne.com\/2006\/01\/drm.html\">not buy CDs from the Big 5<\/a>, because of DRM. 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