Go ahead and plug that digi. hole but stay away from the anal. hole…

In an insane stretch of the DMCA, a new kind of copyright troll is appearing, filing suit to make DRM mandatory

Media Rights Technologies (MRT) and BlueBeat.com have issued cease and desist letters to both companies and to Adobe Systems Inc (nasdaq: ADBE - news - people ) and Real Networks — which produce the Adobe Flash Player and Real Player respectively — for actively avoiding their X1 SeCure Recording Control, which they said is an effective copyright protection system.

MRT and Bluebeat said the failure to use an available copyright protection solution contravenes the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which prohibits the manufacture of any product or technology designed to circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a copyrighted work or protects the rights of copyright owners.

Pardon? To paraphrase notabaggins, how delightfully Soviet. The greatest enemy of capitalism today is the…capitalists? Fuck!

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