If you purchased content from MLB in the last several years, you're screwed. It's gone. It's disappeared, it ceases to exist.

I feel, even for this Red Sox fan, who purchased over $250 of content from Major League Baseball, who in turn, revoked DRM and made his content worthless. BoingBoing covered the MLB DRM fiasco too.

The fact is, DRM is for suckers. It's BAD for the consumer, and it only benefits the content provider, who rarely has the best interest of the customer in mind. I am a big baseball fan, but thanks to this, I will never purchase content from MLB. Then again, I wouldn't have anyway if it was tangled in DRM.

Either way, shame on you, Major League Baseball!

Tags: DRM, MLB, Baseball, Screwed!
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I have never really gotten into the whole debate over Digital Rights Management, or "DRM," as it's usually called. In general, I'm not against the concept: if a product has value and is "for sale," it's within the rights of the salesman to take steps to ensure the item is used properly. So long as the technology was unobtrusive, it didn't bother me. Recently, I've been reconsidering. Read on for more.

Tags: DRM, Rant
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