Carl, you snipped away the part on the price. On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Carl Guderian wrote:
> Books present more of a problem, but maybe Homeland Security, during > Bush's second term of course, can hire firemen like in Fahrenheit 451. > Books only cause trouble and take up way too much space anyway. They're > only holding us back. Thats why we should hate DRM. There is a long quote by Axel Horn in http://intra.b.lab.net/~uzs106/bla/wipodmcaetc.doc (in german) that describes exactly those dangers. But on the other hand, lets be realistic, a movie is a movie, we see it just once in the Cinema, we dont copy it, we just watch it. And when people are so stupid to prefer their home video over real cinema - many do, not only readers of the "Bild Zeitung" - and the price is ok? It is just one option of many, the future is open, maybe the price of the movie is a bad creterium, but I dont know better one yet, best, H. Just saw Carls remarks, DRM is allways a topic > Heiko Recktenwald wrote: > > > > Well, to correct myself, things are complicated ;-) > > As much as I hate DRM, yesterday, I saw something in the german "Bild > > Zeitung", well, thats what many people read, an interesting piece of shit > > or literature, something to read, food for the eyes, not really a > > newspaper, something else, and they announced a pay per view solution of > > cinema, developped by german telecom. "Why not?" I asked myself. There is > > no privat copying possible, but if you go into a cinema, you would not copy > > the movie too. You have no right to do so too. > > <...> # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]