DRM Is Toxic to Culture

Post by andrewflnr » Mon, Jul 10, 2017, 4:31 PM UTC

naasking wrote: post #257

andrewflnr wrote: post #245

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're responding to a bunch of things I didn't say and don't believe. I'm not a fan of DRM, just defending the position that RMS isn't the best source on it. Also, you yourself haven't made an argument that DRM is anywhere near as bad a problem as slavery was. It's nowhere close, and to imply otherwise is to cheapen the suffering of slaves in America. Is that enough of an argument that it's a red herring?

> Also, you yourself haven't made an argument that DRM is anywhere near as bad a problem as slavery was. This judgment was made with perfect hindsight in one case, and no hindsight in the other, so the conclusion is immediately suspect. Like I said, consider the worst possible nightmare for DRM, and then judge whether the comparison is actually fair. Finally, whether RMS is the best source on it is itself a red herri…

Post by audi100quattro » Tue, Jul 11, 2017, 3:14 PM UTC

audi100quattro wrote: post #262

makecheck wrote: post #7

DRM 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 block…

As others have mentioned, music is almost copyright free. Book publishers like springer will sell you watermarked ebooks, and you can find almost any game actually worth your time on gog.com. If producers and consumers wanted, the same could happen for movies. If creators and consumers wanted, copyright and patents could be reformed to stop the gouging of culture, creativity, and entrepreneurship for short-term profi…