DRM Is Toxic to Culture
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DRM Is Toxic to Culture
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Re: DRM Is Toxic to Culture
#2We offer research reports and white papers for your management and Board from experienced advisors
Strangely, I couldn't find any of these reports available for free download and in the public domain...
Re: DRM Is Toxic to Culture
#3It’s like checking the lift ticket, yes, but also the guy checks you are only wearing gear hired from the resort shop, skis with you down the slope and trips you if you try any manoeuvres that weren’t taught to you by the resort ski instructor; then as you go down the slope he pushes you away from the moguls because those are a premium feature and finally you get to run the gauntlet of armed security guards at the bottom of the slope checking for people who haven’t paid.
How is this at all an accurate analogy for DRM?
Re: DRM Is Toxic to Culture
#4We offer research reports and white papers for your management and Board from experienced advisors Strangely, I couldn't find any of these reports available for free download and in the public domain...
Not sure what you're getting at. Lack of DRM does not mean not getting paid for your work.
Re: DRM Is Toxic to Culture
#5It’s like checking the lift ticket, yes, but also the guy checks you are only wearing gear hired from the resort shop, skis with you down the slope and trips you if you try any manoeuvres that weren’t taught to you by the resort ski instructor; then as you go down the slope he pushes you away from the moguls because those are a premium feature and finally you get to run the gauntlet of armed security guards at the bo…
How do you play your blu-ray discs on linux btw.?
Bonus question if you succeeded: did you break any laws doing so?
Re: DRM Is Toxic to Culture
#6It’s like checking the lift ticket, yes, but also the guy checks you are only wearing gear hired from the resort shop, skis with you down the slope and trips you if you try any manoeuvres that weren’t taught to you by the resort ski instructor; then as you go down the slope he pushes you away from the moguls because those are a premium feature and finally you get to run the gauntlet of armed security guards at the bo…
How do you play your blu-ray discs on linux btw.? Bonus question if you succeeded: did you break any laws doing so?
1. Realise that you don't have a blu-ray drive.
2. Install Transmission and download a rip.
Bonus answer: I probably broke laws making my morning coffee.
Re: DRM Is Toxic to Culture
#7DRM and advertising tech have a similar problem of bad execution. Sure, there exists a way to do each of these that many may consider "reasonable" but in practice industries have shown that they would rather be obnoxious and make everything annoying or just much more difficult than necessary. This means they can't be trusted to do it well, and the solution must be to avoid it completely (DRM-free content and ad blocker).
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
How do you play your blu-ray discs on linux btw.? Bonus question if you succeeded: did you break any laws doing so?
1. Realise that you don't have a blu-ray drive. 2. Install Transmission and download a rip. Bonus answer: I probably broke laws making my morning coffee.
1. Realise that a BD drive costs $100
2. Use PS4 to play the drive instead.
Bonus answer: Instructions unclear, di__ stuck in PS4
Re: DRM Is Toxic to Culture
#9We offer research reports and white papers for your management and Board from experienced advisors Strangely, I couldn't find any of these reports available for free download and in the public domain...
Not sure what you're getting at. Lack of DRM does not mean not getting paid for your work.
"All intellectual property should be free! Except the IP I create which I should be paid for!" is problematic. The author of this piece contributes to the (perceived) necessity of copy protection.
Also those armed policemen in Paris aren't there to shoot fare evaders...
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#10The problem with technology-enforced restrictions isn’t that they allow legitimate enforcement of rights; it’s the collateral damage they cause in the process.
Indeed, but the problem with not making any effort to enforce restrictions technically is that typically you then aren't enforcing your legitimate rights.
The metro analogy was interesting. If the system in Germany works, it is because people are honest and pay for what they are using without physical compulsion.
Sadly, if you try to start a business creating original content and making it available online in the same spirit of trust, you will quickly learn that many people in the world are not so honest.
You will also learn that unlike a citywide metro system, it is all too easy for someone of less noble intentions to not only take your content for themselves without paying but also set up their own redistribution channels and steal your customers and your revenues.
A third lesson you will learn is that a lot of people may quite innocently assume that if they can do something then it's allowed, particularly if they speak a different language and don't necessarily understand the deal being offered. DRM can be quite effective at deterring this sort of casual and often unintentional infringement.