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We offer research reports and white papers for your management and Board from experienced advisors Strangely, I couldn't find any of these reports available fo

• AlexandrB 9y ago
  Not sure what you're getting at. Lack of DRM does not mean not getting paid for your work.
  • gaius 9y ago
    "All intellectual property should be free! Except the IP I create which I should be paid for!" is problematic. The author of this piece contributes to the (perceived) necessity of copy protection. Also those armed policemen in Paris aren't there to shoot fare evaders...
    • AlexandrB 9y ago
      > "All intellectual property should be free! Except the IP I create which I should be paid for!" That's a strawman. People should be paid for their work, but that doesn't give them the right to impose extralegal restrictions on how I use their work through technology. If you think that DRM is about piracy, you're living in a fantasy world. Almost all DRMd content - movies, books, music, news - is readily available through illegal or alternative channels with the DRM stripped out. What IS true is that DRM enables several consumer-hostile revenue models for content producers. For example, unskippable ads at the beginning of Blu-Ray releases.
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• _jal 9y ago
  If only snappiness were logic, that would be a stinging rejoinder.
• comex 9y ago
  Strangely, I couldn't find any of these reports available for free download and in the public domain... No, but I bet if you pay for them you get them as PDFs, unencrypted, which you can view on a vast breadth of devices and OSes and applications, annotate/modify, clip parts out of, convert to other formats, and otherwise manipulate as you please, with no arbitrary technological restrictions getting in the way. (Compare to, say, Adobe Digital Editions wrapped PDFs, which can only be read in designated apps and limit you to the capabilities of those apps.)
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  • gaius 9y ago
    with no arbitrary technological restrictions getting in the way How does the arbitrariness of those technological restrictions differ from the arbitrariness of the legal restrictions which I'm sure the author would insist upon, should you decide to republish their work? To me they are the same thing - mechanisms for saying "you might've bought this but the original owner still has a say in what you do with it". The world IMHO is a better place because there are mechanisms by why IP creators can be paid. Yes there is poorly written DRM (Sony, we're looking at you) but that is a problem of execution, not one of concept.
    • type0 9y ago
      > Yes there is poorly written DRM (Sony, we're looking at you) but that is a problem of execution, not one of concept. So you mean that there are Rootkits that are written in a good way?
    • zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 9y ago
      > How does the arbitrariness of those technological restrictions differ from the arbitrariness of the legal restrictions which I'm sure the author would insist upon, should you decide to republish their work? One of those is decided by a democratic process, the other is dictated by one party. > but that is a problem of execution, not one of concept. Actually, it is a problem of the concept. It is asking for computers to be robbed of their defining characteristic, and to be put under dictatorial control. See also Cory Doctorow's talks on the topic, like maybe this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbYXBJOFgeI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbYXBJOFgeI (he gave this and similar talks in many places, you can find quite a few of them on youtube, I have no clue whether this particular one is good)