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Yeah, "ownership" isn't really what's at stake here. I guess, "consumption" would be a better term? DRM limits the ways in which consumers' can consume media -
by jdormit 9y ago
Yeah, "ownership" isn't really what's at stake here. I guess, "consumption" would be a better term? DRM limits the ways in which consumers' can consume media - specifically, it enforces copyright.
I think we are on the same page about the questionable moral standing of copyright for digital artifacts.
- zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 9y ago> DRM limits the ways in which consumers' can consume media - specifically, it enforces copyright. No, it doesn't. Copyright has concepts such as fair use. DRM does not enforce fair use.
- TeMPOraL 9y agoPut simply, DRM is a publisher's mechanism to restrict the use of a digital good in whatever way they like, which usually includes enforcing a subset of copyright laws that's beneficial to the publisher.