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>>Content owners have - in principle, legally backed - the right to distribute their content in any way they see fit, and content consumers have the option to r
by syshum 10y ago
>>Content owners have - in principle, legally backed - the right to distribute their content in any way they see fit, and content consumers have the option to refuse that content if the format it is presented in is un-acceptable to them, this is a consensual producer-consumer relationship.
you are giving content "owners" (and I use that term losely, because legally they are Copyright Holders not owners, copyright is not property) many more rights that are simply not granted by copyright law.
DRM is used in way to massively exceed the authority granted to creators by copyright, they abuse DRM and you claim the rest of society must just "take it" because "that's the market"
Well there is no "market forces" when it comes to content because the government grants upon a person a monopoly over a copyrighted work, this exhausts many market forces. Sure you can claim a general market of "Movies" but due to the nature of the product these are not interchangeable widgets that normally constitute a market.
>If you feel 'bullied' to consume content with DRM the problem lies with you
The "being bullied" is a weak argument, i will give you that, but what about platform or time shifters. Should the MPAA be able disable my bluray player with a code on all new bluray discs? Should MPAA be able to tell me which HDMI cable I must buy and which monitor on my PC is acceptable?
Should the MPAA be able to force me to use Chrome instead of Midori.
If I buy content today, that can play on Firefox, but then next year google revokes the Widvine license firefox uses, it is acceptable that now the content I paid for is unusable by me?
- jacquesm 10y agoDon't buy blueray discs and don't use Midori, don't use any content at all that is DRM encumbered. Yes, that will limit your choice but so what, if enough people do it the coin will drop. That's my solution to this whole DRM issue and I've yet to find a 'must-see' thing that was DRM encumbered. Copyright law gives rights-holders all kinds of options, and digital tools have given them options to make it harder to do some things that are not per-se violations of the law but that are also not explicitly granted as rights. And that's a huge difference from a legal perspective.
- seejay 10y agoWhat you don't realize is that the solution you suggest won't work if famous people like TBL publicly support DRM. People wouldn't care about your opinions much, some would even call them dumb just like you call others opinions dumb. But when a respectable person like TBL says something people tend to take his words seriously. This is why people were worried about what TBL did. A very few would have cared if you or I did such a thing.
- sametmax 10y agoYou can also stop driving if you support the environment and stop buying phones if you care about child slavery and stop using electricity if you don't want nuclear wastes. Personally I stopped eating meat, and just this is quite a cost in additional constraints in your life, because society is designed in a way and doing something different requires extra efforts. Yes, boycotting something you don't want is a good move, but if you apply it to all things you want to protest against you will no longer be part of society. So you can't only rely on that. It can't be the only answer. We need to take stand to also refuse those bad moves, especially before they happen.