Comments on: DRM and ‘frustrated’ consumers http://www.p2pnet.net/story/10145 p2pnet.net - reader powered Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:54:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/10145#comment-129126 Reader's Write Thu, 19 Oct 2006 09:36:40 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/10145#comment-129126 I agree. Technologies like WMDRM and others are proprietery and have not been revied by the community like other specifications in the networking world. It will always be easy to break such technologies. It cannot be deployed extensively, as the devices cannot implement this without buying device certificates(DTLA license is required to even implement it), which will further increase cost of devices. Such technologies cannot work. I agree. Technologies like WMDRM and others are proprietery and have not been revied by the community like other specifications in the networking world. It will always be easy to break such technologies. It cannot be deployed extensively, as the devices cannot implement this without buying device certificates(DTLA license is required to even implement it), which will further increase cost of devices.

Such technologies cannot work.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/10145#comment-129116 Reader's Write Wed, 18 Oct 2006 23:07:27 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/10145#comment-129116 "Frustrated consumers will simply pirate the content," declares Brad Hunt This is the only line in the story that makes any sense. After that he totally contradicts himself. DRM is designed specifically to "frustrate" the efforts of consumers attempting to use content in the ways they want to. So, ANY DRM measures will "frustrate" a large percentage of consumers. Then we will pirate the content. Yup. MPAA=dipshiats “Frustrated consumers will simply pirate the content,” declares Brad Hunt

This is the only line in the story that makes any sense. After that he totally contradicts himself. DRM is designed specifically to “frustrate” the efforts of consumers attempting to use content in the ways they want to. So, ANY DRM measures will “frustrate” a large percentage of consumers. Then we will pirate the content. Yup.

MPAA=dipshiats

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/10145#comment-129114 Reader's Write Wed, 18 Oct 2006 21:30:15 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/10145#comment-129114 They still don't get it. Even when they realise frustrated consumers don't like DRM, what do they do? Try and find DRM that is less likely to annoy them. I've said this before but DRM does NOT benefit consumers, it does NOT treat people who paid good money for their films and music with any respect, and it does NOT take into account of the fact people like to share stuff they enjoy, not necessarily just via P2P but just being able to take a film round to someone else's house - DRM stops even that. They still don’t get it. Even when they realise frustrated consumers don’t like DRM, what do they do? Try and find DRM that is less likely to annoy them.

I’ve said this before but DRM does NOT benefit consumers, it does NOT treat people who paid good money for their films and music with any respect, and it does NOT take into account of the fact people like to share stuff they enjoy, not necessarily just via P2P but just being able to take a film round to someone else’s house - DRM stops even that.

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