Saturday, November 19, 2005

Interoperatable DRM

I had more thoughts on DRM after my last blog entry on Sony...

Based on the same argument on companies asserting their draconian control on what consumers can or can't listen to, other media content providers and software companies are just as bad as Sony. I don't think that consumers should willy nilly copy and distribute music without regards to copyright laws. Digital Rights Management (DRM) is set of technologies to control the use and distribution of digital media and for many businesses a primary technique used to prevent revenue loss due to piracy. I don't necessarily have any problems with DRM technology, my biggest concern is that each company has their own proprietary DRM technology - Apple and Microsoft each has its own DRM technology that are not compatible with each other. Again, what we need is an open-standard DRM that interoperates among different media content providers.

11/19/2005 1:59:37 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00) # Comments [1] Thoughts

11/22/2005 12:46:38 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
If the consumer buys a CD, it's belongs to them. Period. I agree we should be wary of companies interpreting DRM in their own ways. Have you tried the Napster free trial? What a joke. They want to charge you once for download and once for burning a CD. And then, to add salt to the wound, they deactivate all of your music if you don't keep paying their membership fee. Talk about "First one's free!" Obviously they are using the drug pusher business model.

Sony commited cyber intrusion and should be prosecuted by some attorney general. Period. We can't protect companies/governments from cyber intrusion if we can't protect consumers. They need to be spanked and someone needs to be fired.
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