This is the silliest goddamn thing I have read all week.

Check out the list. Where do they go first? Legislation. That's right. They want you to go to Parliament. And for my fellow Americans who have no clue, I'd like to point out that this has nothing to do with George Clinton.

Think about this for a second: they want you to get government to tell the people who own these properties that they can only provide these properties to you in a certain way. Why is this bad? Because this is government. Any power you can give them can be perverted and twisted for their own benefit. Don't believe me? Here in the States we just got rid of a phone tax that was implemented to pay for the Spanish-American War. There actually had to be a fight to get rid of it. It's not like the government was going to go, "Whoops! Guess what? I'll be damned. We missed that one. Our bad. Here, let's take care of this for you." No, they were willing to keep taxing and taxing away.

Look at it another way: here in the States, they think the Net is made of tubes. And not the band from the 80s, I mean actual tubes. Do you really want people who are that technologically backward passing laws about technology?

And finally: it's not the government's job to protect you from DRM. They can barely protect you from [insert name of actual threat here].

You want to know how to deal with DRM? Here's Widgett Walls' handy guide for how to deal with DRM:

1. Stop fucking buying stuff with fucking DRM on it.

That's it. One step. If you want to convince an industry to do something, hurt them at their wallet.

They have the right to provide this stuff in any form they want. And you have the right to tell them to go fuck themselves.

Show them how you're buying nothing but non-DRM shit from now on, and they will come around. Or they'll die. If you're willing to do that, great. If not, then you're showboating and you're wasting everybody's time. Sorry, but that's the way of it.

Found via Boing Boing. And it's probably posts like this that keep me from getting linked on there, he said, smiling.

While you're here, pledge not to buy CDs with DRM on them. Remember: reward the behavior you want to continue, punish the behavior you want to see decrease. Hat tip to Boing Boing.

Also, I love my Sidekick, true, but not this much.

In other news, the second part of my reading of "Call of Cthulhu" is now online.

You can expect the third season opener of Something Else to hit in the next few days. Episode 50 is already being sketched out.

I'm hoping to have some sketches of Eye up this week. My art supplies have been temporarily misplaced, however, so bear with me.

As you were.

I've read about this Coldplay DRM debacle a couple of different places, but it's The Consumerist who has the best reaction to it:

Don't buy the new Coldplay album.

Amen. Take that money and buy Exit Mindbomb instead. Best album of 2005.