Looks like the negative relationship can go even further.... :-)
http://help.channel4.com/SRVS/CGI-BIN/WEBCGI.EXE/,/?
St=19,E=0000000000000069424,K=4792,Sxi=17,CASE=1363
Oh well, back to the torrents.
RichE
On 13 Feb 2007, at 10:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6353889.stm
<< DRM software like Apple's Fairplay or Microsoft's Windows Media DRM
should properly be called digital restriction management, since its
primary
goal is to limit what purchasers can do with downloaded content.>>
(from
Bill Thompson)
Isn't the argument for DRM all but already lost? Why automatically
regard
purchasers as suspect criminals ... seems like a very negative
relationship
to have with your customers. A lot of the time record companies, for
instance, have already had so many bites of the cherry selling
music on
vinyl, then the same music again on tape, CD and now as downloads.
Don't
think the BBC should waste time and money DRMing content that it
provides.
It doesn't DRM content on its TV and radio stations, so why should it
discriminate against people who access material online?
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andrew Bowden
Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 9:39 AM
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
Subject: RE: [backstage] DRM and hwardware attitudes
Imagine if your local library imposed DRM on the books it lent you,
you'd only be able to read them in certain places with certain light
sources. Why do you accept unreasonable restrictions (even paying for
the "privilege") on music that you'd never except with the written
word?
Well libraries have a separate system. They lend you the books for
free
for (say) a month, and once you break the terms and conditions of the
library (i.e. you don't return your book on time) they fine you. A
library is not after all, a free for all.
And that's in a way what DRM is all about - upholding the terms and
conditions of your usage of the file. Of course an alternative way
would be to automatically fine you every time you "breached" the terms
and conditions.
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