DRM is good for you
p2pnet.net News:- The case has been made. DRM (digital restrictions management) is bad. It’s cold and cynical, a technology designed by the entertainment and software industries to control consumer choice under penalty of persecution.
Nor can it work for the simple reason that anything which can be seen or heard can be copied in various analog or digital ways.
But (shades of George Orwell’s 1984) DRM may be good for you, says Hollywood supporter James DeLong of the Progress and Freedom Foundation.
DRM could give citizens more choices for downloading or buying copyrighted content, says DeLong, who’s on record as stating:
“Why should anyone invest in legitimate digital entertainment services if they will be forced to compete with free - a sure road to bankruptcy? Stern legal enforcement is necessary to signal to potential investors that the movie industry is serious about supporting efforts to create legitimate channels.”
DRM could lead to new pricing models favorable to consumers, the IDG News Service has him saying.
“Limited-use works will be cheaper than unlimited works, DeLong said,” the story goes on. “Before DRM, ‘you could do what you want with it,’ he said. ‘But is that a good thing?’ “
The panel was part of the FTC’s three-day conference, “Protecting Consumers in the Next Tech-ade” but until DRM “matured,” consumers had control over how they used digital content, IDG News quotes Deirdre Mulligan, director of the Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic at the University of California Berkeley Law School, pointing out.
DRM is creating a “permission culture” where consumers have to ask the copyright owner’s permission to play a piece of music on a both home computer and a car stereo, she said, adding that until DRM, “there was a lot of breathing space in copyright law”.
But Andrew Moss, senior director of technical policy at Microsoft, agreed wuth DeLong, saying, “DRM will be important to consumers as more of them began to create their own digital content. DRM will allow them to control how their creations are used:
” ‘What [DRM] is intended to do is give people choices,’ he said.”
(Thanks, Julie)
Also See:
legal enforcement is necessary - Studios to Begin Suing Illegal Film File Swappers, November 4, 2004
IDG News Service - Is DRM Good Or Bad For Consumers?, November 8, 2006
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November 10th, 2006 at 1:05 pm
What a fantastic bit of doublethink that last sentence is: the premise of the piece is that you can currently ‘do too much’ with digital content, and content providers want to limit this. So what exactly is this “choice” DRM is suppsed to confer on customers? The choice to pay more to do less, of course. (See my sarcastic p2p piece from ages ago: http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7757.)
Wake up! You’re already competing with free! (In both senses of the word.)
November 10th, 2006 at 1:46 pm
Progress and Freedom Foundation?, a cynical name.
DRM is to get a foothold on all of us like the Bush’s “liberation” of Irak to get a foothold on the petroleum.
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November 10th, 2006 at 2:46 pm
Jon you really are too much. You lift these stories from Slyck and then post fake names at the bottom. I saw this post go up originally without a name and now a name appears.
Do your own work.
November 10th, 2006 at 3:13 pm
‘What [DRM] is intended to do is give people choices,’ he said.”
like will it be KY or Vaseline ???
November 10th, 2006 at 6:48 pm
:)) :)) :)) ROTFLMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)) :)) :)) …’til tears come to my eyes and my sides HURT!… :)) :)) :))
Of COURSE I’m ___”REAL”___! What a ‘GOOF’ who thinks I’m not! LMAO!!! THIS is WAY tooooo phunny!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOLOLOLOL!
Jon, sounds like your TROLL is BAAAAAACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THAT is NOT so funny! Although, I guess we all have our HECKLERS!
November 10th, 2006 at 7:33 pm
: ) How much time do you spend comparing?
But Julie is real. And Yes, I admit it! I check the Slyck links to news stories, and throughout my day, I also keep an eye on Digg, slashdot, the NYT, the Beeb, MPAA, RIAA, TPB, ChinaTechNews, and so on and etc.
Meanwhile, people such as Julie also regularly send me urls, for which I thank them.
Cheers!
November 10th, 2006 at 7:49 pm
If this doublespeak is just propaganda to push the content industry’s “total command & control” agenda, well, it totally blows but at least I know it’s just simple greed motivating them. The scary thought is, do some of these @$$hats actually believe their own bull$hite? There is nothing more dangerous than a deeply deluded zealot.
November 11th, 2006 at 3:29 pm
Obviously, none of you ever tried to make a living by playing a musical instrument. It is amazing how many people knowing nothing about a subject yet convinced that they have the right to decide what is good for music business and what’s not.
Whatever you do, do it for free. See how long it’s going to work for you!
November 11th, 2006 at 10:28 pm
Once again …..
An artist, of ANY kind, is one, not because of cash
and prizes,
It’s because that’s WHO THEY ARE, inside and out ..
Blood to Bone.
I am
From the time I was 6, till the day I die.
Not for cash,
Not for accolades,
but because I can’t help it, I was born to it.
Doing it for free worked real well for me.
” It is amazing how many people knowing nothing about a subject yet convinced that they have the right to decide what is good for music business and what’s not. ”
I don’t really care about the “Business”.
The “Business” is not the Music.
When the ” Business” dies, the music will remain.
It existed without any ” Business ” before, so I am sure
music will survive the collapse of the “Business”.
If you’ve hung around here long enough ( pretty sure you have,
and are just trolling ), you’ll see just how many of us are …
Musicians
Programmers/Software Engineers
Writers
Artists.
Most of us here, in fact
It’s amazing how hard “Business” works to make sure our opinions
are either not heard, or belong to them.
We’ll never Shut up.
We’ll never give up.
November 11th, 2006 at 10:36 pm
Real,
3 years older than I
and 100 times smarter than our dumass troll.
Troll never left us btljooz. He just hides for a day or two
after getting humiliated.