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The issue is the products that you can't choose because they don't get made because of DRM. DRM means that you need permission to have interoperability. If you
by hsivonen 10y ago
The issue is the products that you can't choose because they don't get made because of DRM.
DRM means that you need permission to have interoperability. If you are starting a new product from zero market share, if you were allowed to achieve interop by just putting the effort into writing code, you could make something awesome without anyone's permission and gain some market share if users want to your what you made.
If you have no market share, a DRM-requiring service might not see your platform/device/whatever as worth supporting. And if users want the service to work before they want to use your product, then you don't get to build the market share to make your bizdev case and DRM means you don't get to engineer around bizdev.
- k-mcgrady 10y agoOk so it increases the barrier to entry for new device/platform makers. I don't see why that should be the content creators problem though. It's similar to the argument Pandora was making that the cost of content was too high for them to survive - that's your problem not the content owners.