Douchebag companies reduce amount of douchebaggery

So we haven’t spoken in a while, and mainly that’s because I’m in summer holidays in my hometown where absolutely nothing happens. Even less happens when I get glandular fever, my xbox breaks and half my family go off on seperate holidays. You haven’t been missing anything.

As the more nerdily enclined of you will know by now, I dislike DRM. I dislike the supporters of DRM and I dislike the companies that attempt to force DRM down my throat even though I’m buying their stuff legally. If you don’t know what DRM is, you can safely ignore this post.

Apparently, though, there is beginning to be a change of heart about this sort of thing. The article linked can be summarised thusly: companies who see their copyrighted video appear on youtube are beginning to ditch the “shit, some guy who likes our movie has uploaded his favourite scene from it, let’s sue him for everything he’s got” attitude and beginning instead to think “hey, if we put an advert for more of our stuff on that page, people would probably click on it and we would make money”.

I’ll spare you a supportive rant due to laziness. Just read the article if you’re interested in this sort of thing (you big nerd you).