Criminals!
Privately, Hollywood admits DRM isn’t about piracy
Access control technologies such as DRM create “scarcity” where there is immeasurable abundance, that is, in a world of digital reproduction. The early years saw tech such as CSS tapped to prevent the copying of DVDs, but DRM has become much more than that. It’s now a behavioral modification scheme that permits this, prohibits that, monitors you, and auto-expires when. Oh, and sometimes you can to watch a video or listen to some music.
In a nutshell: DRM’s sole purpose is to maximize revenues by minimizing your rights and selling them back to you.
The idea of Joe User buying a movie for a fixed price and then inviting friends over to see it was anathema to the industry.
Here’s what Hollywood thinks about Apple’s model.
Please drop the script font. It’s too hard to read!!!
“…permits this, prohibits that, monitors you…”
One more reason to crack any and all DRM’s
Hollywood is just milking it before their inevitable demise anyway. We’re already to the point where complete amateurs posting things freely for fun to sites like YouTube is more entertaining than the vast majority of what comes out of Hollywood.
Pay per view for everything is Hollywood’s ultimate goal.
Unmentionables like the DRM racket are why I decided to spend my music dollars by going to see live music in small venues. It’s also why I never buy CDs unless I can buy them directly from the artists (and know that a record company isn’t picking their pocket).
Record companies are the thuggish middlemen who arrogantly think they are more important than either the audience (whose money they are taking) or the artists (whose work create the value that makes those little plastic disks worth more than the .39 cents it costs to press them). More than that, the film and record companies seem to think they are entitled to a market where they have the permanently crystallized monopoly position that they enjoyed when they cornered the content publishing and distribution industry from the 50s-90s. Recently, by being greedy short-sighted fools they allowed Apple to corner them and now Apple is eating their lunch and leaving them the crumbs they thought were everyone else’s due. While, I’m not the hugest fan of Apple’s business tactics, it is a delicious irony to see the record companies getting tied over a barrel and given their comeuppance.
I wonder how long it will take for the light bulb to come on for the masses to realize that this trojan horse we call DRM is also embedded into HD-DVD, Blu-Ray, and HDTV broadcasts (TBD).
Hmmm, I wonder if waiting until 80% of the masses have bought into their infrastructure is a form of commericial entrapment. Just a thought.
#8
“I wonder how long it will take for the light bulb to come on for the masses to realize that this trojan horse we call DRM is also embedded into HD-DVD, Blu-Ray, and HDTV broadcasts (TBD).”
– and Vista?
#4 – IF you like pre-teen girl lipsyncing Paris Hilton videos in their underoos, sure…
#10 – Go to YouTube and search on “vomit”. There is an entire subulture of vomit out there. It so ridiculous you ‘ll laugh yourself sick (in between holding back your own retching… 😉 )
#9 –
Right said, Fred!
#1 Yes, it is difficult to read. It appears to be smudged.
#8, #9 Right on.
#1, 13: If you are on Windows and using LCD screens, do you have ClearType turned on? If not, that might be why it looks the way you describe.
Patronize eMusic! — no DRMs!
I read, though, that the the DRM-free approach of eMusic was not philosophical but because it was the only practical way for them to get a slice of the iPod market.
The premise of this article seems unusually obvious. (Most of the behavior which follows in response to DRM use is consistent. regardless of the imagined motives.) Is it aimed at people who are brand new to the net?
#11
I rest my case 🙁