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> I would love to see some use cases of what people want to be able to do with DRM'd media that 1) can't be done with current DRM limitations and 2) is within t

> I would love to see some use cases of what people want to be able to do with DRM'd media that 1) can't be done with current DRM limitations and 2) is within the guidelines of what the distributor allows (or within the rights given by the user's local government). Play it on my linux machine? Copy it to a different medium for my own personal use? Inspect it for security vulnerabilities? Build and sell a device that allows you to split the video signal into multiple parts so I can watch it on multiple screens arranged into one large screen? Buy a device that allows me to inject home automation information onto the display on which I am watching it? Do you need more?

pdkl95 9y ago
> more? How about the highly experimental, expensive, poor-user-interface, precursors to whatever the next truly innovative killer app will be? We don't know what the really important use cases will be; we don't even know[1] which events or innovations are in the general direction of the next killer app. The very idea that some ideas - aka information, intellectual works, or (bleh) "content" - can be owned is already offensive enough. For DRM to make any kind of sense you first have to presume you can enumerate the ways an idea will be used. If we knew that, we could skip most R&D. Instead of trying artificially re-create scarcity, the Silicon Valley startup culture should be worried about of DRM fencing off next-decade's products. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections_%28TV_series%29#Content https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections_%28TV_series%29#Co...