On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 10:49:01AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > On 5/18/05, Brad Templeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <MASSIVE SNIP> > > ...and this system doesn't stop that! So why? > > > > All I can say is many people who wrote the spec disagree with you but > I support your rights to go understand their point of view better.
So help me. Are you saying the technical people really felt that the DRM would keep the tv shows off the P2P networks? I have to believe they understood that a single cracked copy can spread like wildfire, so that a day after the single crack, it's no different from 1,000 people having cracked copies to put up. I can understand if they felt that the DRM would delay the arrival of the cracked copy by some number of days, but surely that wasn't enough to justify all this. Is it that they wrote this before the rise of bittorrent and thus didn't fully grasp how quickly one copy could become thousands? Perhaps they did not grasp that as legal pressure was applied to P2P networks, coders would develop anonymous P2P networks or resist in other ways. That many coders, with little interest in piracy, would do this because they didn't like the attacks on the technology? If you have a better understanding of how they thought it would play out, why it would be worth all this, I want to learn. Where do they disagree with the message you snipped?
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