Comments on: BitTorrent Inc: iTunes DRM Inspires People to Pirate Content

By: Piracy Leads to Less Crap says BitTorrent Co-founder at IDTorrent Blog

Piracy Leads to Less Crap says BitTorrent Co-founder at IDTorrent Blog — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 10:07:44 +0000

[...] president of BitTorrent never held Navin back much. With quotes such as “iTunes DRM Inspires People to Pirate Content,” he was very clear about [...]

By: Piracy Leads to Less Crap says BitTorrent Co-founder | Torrent Searcher News

Sun, 09 Nov 2008 19:37:40 +0000

[...] position as president of BitTorrent never held Navin back much. With quotes such as “iTunes DRM Inspires People to Pirate Content,” he was very clear about his attitude towards [...]

By: Piracy Leads to Less Crap says BitTorrent Co-founder | TorrentFreak

Piracy Leads to Less Crap says BitTorrent Co-founder | TorrentFreak — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 13:12:38 +0000

[...] position as president of BitTorrent never held Navin back much. With quotes such as “iTunes DRM Inspires People to Pirate Content,” he was very clear about his attitude towards [...]

By: delade | BitTorrent Fires 20% of Its Employees

delade | BitTorrent Fires 20% of Its Employees — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 04:38:05 +0000

[...] Ashwin Navin was a bit more outspoken about it. He said that DRM is “a time bomb waiting to happen,” and that it will inspire people to pirate content. One thing we can be sure of, it didn’t help [...]

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Creeva’s World 2.0 » Creeva’s Shared items in Google Reader — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 19:16:35 +0000

[...] Inc. co-founder Ashwin Navin on iTunes DRM: “iTunes DRM Inspires People to Pirate [...]

By: Zune Accessory » BitTorrent Inc: iTunes DRM Inspires People to Pirate Content

Wed, 16 May 2007 12:08:31 +0000

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By: BitTorrent.com Launches Video Store | TorrentFreak

BitTorrent.com Launches Video Store | TorrentFreak — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 22:50:27 +0000

[...] BitTorrent Inc president and co-founder, Ashwin Navin is not a fan of DRM either, and is a bit more outspoken about it. He said that DRM is “a time bomb waiting to happen,” and that it will inspire people to pirate content. [...]

By: BitTorrent Store to Compete with Apple, Microsoft and Piracy | TorrentFreak

BitTorrent Store to Compete with Apple, Microsoft and Piracy | TorrentFreak — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 23:35:47 +0000

[...] The BitTorrent store will be launched next month, and videos will be ‘protected’ by Windows DRM. Ironically, Navin said on a panel at the international Consumer Electronics Show (CES) that DRM inspires people to pirate content. So they have to find a way to convince their media partners to remove the DRM first, if they really want to compete with piracy. Bram Cohen, the inventor of BitTorrent and co-founder of BitTorrent Inc, told us last week, “Right now most of our content partners are insisting on DRM for the content we’re making available. It’s causing an awful lot of headaches, but we’re trying to minimize the impact on user experience and support” [...]

By: Anom

Anom — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 00:07:10 +0000

Personally – I love downloading DRM’d wma’s – then stripping them of their protection – before uploading them back up as torrents for everyone to share!

By: flammable

flammable — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 20:46:12 +0000

True, though PlayForSure is definitely included. What if I invest money in PlayForSure music, and then want to put it on my iPod? Doesn’t work.

Makes me question his motives for calling out every DRM except the one he’s using. All DRM is bad, plain and simple.