Hollywood’s new DRM direction
p2pnet.net news:- Hollywood has drawn its final line on DRM (Digital Restrictions Management) consumer control.
Dan Glickman, Hollywood’s spin-doctor-in-chief, says it’s time for the entertainment cartels to figure out new ways to impose it without further alienating the people upon whom Hollywood depends.
Movie-goers.
Says Variety, “In his first public address on the increasingly controversial topic,” Glickman, described as the MPAA’s (Motion Picture Association of America) “topper,” called on, “high-level leaders from the entertainment and technology industries” to attend a meeting, “akin to a trade negotiation,” to, “find common ground on digital rights management technology”.
And the MPAA’s chief piracy investigators, Lucky and Flo, weren’t even mentioned.
Glickman was fronting Hollywood’s new policies at a DRM conference staged by LexisNexis and Variety.
Things need to go beyond “lawyers and engineers” to “alleviate problems with different DRM systems that don’t interoperate or confuse consumers with their limitations,” he says, according to the story.
During his “address,” Glickman also, “for the first time made specific statements about DRM on behalf of all the MPAA’s member studios, Variety goes on.
Apparently, their goal is a, “diverse, high-quality, hassle-free consumer experience,” one that, “makes the most effective case possible not merely for the legitimate consumer marketplace, but its vast superiority (over piracy).”
According to Glickman, MPAA owners Time Warner, Viacom, Fox, Sony, NBC Universal and Disney also want “managed copying” to let users buy films off a DVD and watch it on a PC or portable device.
“He said managed copying should launch in the HD-DVD format by the end of the year, and said the industry would also like to see it enabled for standard-def DVDs,” says Variety.
Glickman, “admitted the latter development would take ‘a bit longer.’ It would require an industrywide commitment to a new DRM standard for DVDs, which don’t enable copying.
Adds the story:
That has been a bone of contention for digital-rights advocates, who argue that consumers should be allowed to make copies for personal use of movies they own.
Those in the biz, however, don’t want to allow any copying that they can’t control with DRM, as users might then make illegal copies for friends or put files on the Internet.
On behalf of MPAA owners, “We collectively affirm our ongoing support for digital rights management,” Variety has Glickman declaring.
Also See:
Variety – Glickman calls for DRM interoperability, April 23, 2007
Lucky and Flo – MPAA Super Snorters sniff sin, April 18, 2007
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April 25th, 2007 at 1:41 pm
those in MPAA and RIAA are enemies of the people, and should be treated as such.
April 26th, 2007 at 6:40 pm
“…the industry would also like to see [managed copying] enabled for standard-def DVDs,” says Variety.
This is NOT about “enabling” managed copying of standard DVDs. It is a transparent attempt to force yet another crappy DRM scam on consumers. CSS encryption is (and always was) useless and is completely broken. The studios know standard DVDs will be around for a long time and want to “lock down” new releases.
Note: If these criminals are allowed to do this consumers will be forced to buy new players to playback these crippled new DVDs.
Don’t fall for the lies.
April 27th, 2007 at 7:56 pm
You know what ?
I have a data dvd that has a grand total of 4096 Dvd Decrypter and Dvd shrink files on it i downloaded from various websites on the internet and i could not care if DICKHEAD DAN GLICKMAN says he is againest fair use copying of standard dvds.
I do what i want to do.
BIG DEAL…………
DICKHEAD DAN CAN KISS MY ASS.
He is akin to the WINDY WOLF in little red riding hood story who spends his time TALKING SHIT and nobody takes his ranting seriously.
April 27th, 2007 at 9:33 pm
Or was that the story of the three little pigs ?
Hmmmm………………….