Response to DRM

I feel that the DRM is a really bad idea. In order to protect copyright laws they had to cheat millions of people out of using their technology that they own for private usage the way that they want and should be able to. I am not entirely sure what would make a good replacement for DRM, but I do know that the replacement plan would have to work for everyone and also be fair for everyone. It would also have to make more legal sense than DRM does. I think that it is a terrible thought that the kids that are born today will never own a real CD, DVD, or book. I think that it is terrible because if they never own the solid objects they will miss out on a large amount of information that they would probably like having. When someone downloads a song they only hear that song and never hear all of the other song from the album that they would probably like, and they also miss out on all of the information about the band and album that would have come with the actual CD. This is the same problem with movies and books that are downloaded from the internet. All three of these have another problem. When a person owns a real CD, DVD, or book they have control over them. They have a feeling that they have enough power to do anything that they want with these three objects in their own homes with friend and family. To explain this whole thing to a parental figure I would say that it makes it so that you don’t own the media; you just own the rights to view the media online. If I suddenly found that I wasn’t able to listen to the music that I had bought because of DRM, the only way that I could do anything about it would be to go to congress and try to change the system legally. It seems that the only way anyone can own music or art is if they created it and never sold the rights to it. Anyone else can own a copy of it, but they can never actually own it.