A Man and his Penguin

This video that I’m trying to unprotect is "You Can’t Stop The Beat" from Hairspray. It just occurred to me how fitting the lyrics are, in relation to my struggle against DRM:

Tracy:
You can’t stop an avalanche
as it races down the hill
You can try to stop the seasons, girl
but you know you never will

Maybelle:
You can’t stop today
as it comes speeding down the track
Child, yesterday was history
and it’s never coming back

In essence, that is what DRM is an attempt to do: Stop something much more powerful than itself. You can’t stop the beat!

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