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p2pnet.net news:- As we all know, DRM is spelled CRAP where DRM is short for Digital Restrictions Management (consumer control) and CRAP is “Cancellation, Restriction, and Punishment”, as the Free Software Foundation’s Richard Stallman terms it.
But HBO’s chief technology officer Bob Zitter believes it needs yet another acronym —– “DCE,” or, “Digital Consumer Enablement,” to be precise.
“People don’t like DRM, perhaps that’s just because it’s such a smelly word,” the Wired blog has him saying.
HBO’s “top techie” said the new term would, “better describe all the peachy ways that copyright holders and providers could dictate how consumers access content,” says the story, going on:
Digital Consumer Enablement, would more accurately describe technology that allows consumers “to use content in ways they haven’t before,” such as enjoying TV shows and movies on portable video players like iPods. “I don’t want to use the term DRM any longer,” said Zitter, who added that content-protection technology could enable various new applications for cable operators.
Zitter notes that HBO has HD on Demand movies ready to go, but can’t serve them up due to piracy fears until it has better DRM in place. Excuse me, I should have said DCE in place. HBO’s big concern is the analog hole - in essence the gap in DRM that lets consumers capture the unencrypted analog signal from an HD signal. He, apparently, would like to plug the hole, but can’t due to meddlesome laws.
Theoretically, says Zitter, those analog outputs could be disabled, forcing consumers to use a secure digital connection to watch HD content. But current FCC rules don’t give HBO or cable operators that power, in order to protect consumers who bought early HDTV sets that don’t support digital copy protection. “They say we can’t turn off the analog output,” Zitter notes.
Actually, DCE is Dumb Consumer Entrapment, says Robin L.
But whichever way you spell it, DRM or CRAP or DCE is a load of old bollocks, not to put too fine a point on it.
If you can see it or hear it, you can copy it. Thus it has always been, and thus it always shall be.
End of story.
(Thanks, Robin)
Also See:
DRM is spelled CRAP
blog - HBO Exec: Don’t Call It DRM, May 10, 2007
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May 14th, 2007 at 1:25 pm
a peice of shit wrapped in gold leaf is still a piece of shit
hey, why won’t –
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— let me submit this post when I type it either as an “O” (oh) or a zero “0″ ?!
May 14th, 2007 at 2:14 pm
Go ahead, put your Digital Cash Extractor on top of our TVs. See how long it takes before we say, “This sucks, shove your ‘Digital Consumer Enablement’ where the sun don’t shine.”
May 15th, 2007 at 7:03 am
Hey.. why not change AIDS to another acronym. AIDS have had a negative covering in the press in the past years, maybe we should change that one too and this way it will work.