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Re: [News] AACS Begins to Acknowledge DRM Shortcomings, Takes Self-eliminating Action

__/ [ Mark Kent ] on Saturday 26 May 2007 08:43 \__

> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Copying HD DVD and Blu-ray discs may become legal
>> 
>> ,----[  ]
>>| Movie industry could make concession to consumers to quell criticism
>>| that DRM technologies are too restrictive
>> `----
>> 
>> http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/05/24/Copying-discs-legal_1.html
>> 
>> Isn't the purpose of DRM to /restrict/ copying? 'Feature' by 'feature'
>> content will become DRM-naked, due to pressure.
>> 
> 
> DRM is another face of a game traditionally also played by hardware
> vendors, that of lock-in, compatibility prevention and flexibility
> prevention.
> 
> It's been technically feasible to transfer data between different kinds
> of device for decades, however, there has always been a tendency to only
> provide a limited set of transfer capabilities on a given device, which
> always made things difficult.  Even back in the analogue audio days,
> many equipment types would have only a DIN socket, and other equipment
> would have only a phono socket.  As the voltages were different between
> the two standards, a simple connecting lead was often not enough,
> rather, an attenuator usually had to be inserted.
> 
> This problem was thoroughly exacerbated in the digital age, where
> manufacturers really didn't want too much compatibility, but worse,
> neither did the "content owners".  Macrovision was a really good way for
> trying to prevent even analogue video streams from working properly,
> and the non-CD CDs with deliberately introduced errors were another good
> example.
> 
> If it weren't for the idiocy of the music and film industry, consumption
> would have moved on hugely by now, but the public at large is truly sick
> of things not working properly, *by design*.

Increasingly you'll find people's whose frustration leads to more targetted
content from Web sites such as YouTube. Where else can you /search/ and
/syndicate/ video content? Where else can you save and share content with
friends? Call it Video 2.0, based on peer production.

News sites try to evolve to these news trends (if not just litigate to knock
it out of this world). It's a case of two little, too late. It's like NYT
believeing that revenue can be retained by requesting that people register
in order to view Web pages, or tolerate annoying Flash adverts. The Big
Media suffers from the same scary transisiton that Free software brings. No
legal moves and FUD can extinguish this trend, which is customer driven.
Those who don't readjust their business and development models (e.g. Nokia,
Motorola and Palm gradually moving to Linux) are doomed to become dinosaurs.

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