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While I share your views on DRM for rented media, I think the broader point here is if we continue to accept this form of access, the idea of "owning" [an indef
by oliwarner 8y ago
While I share your views on DRM for rented media, I think the broader point here is if we continue to accept this form of access, the idea of "owning" [an indefinite, singularly transferable license for] media (eg a DVD) will evaporate.
I honestly don't have answers here but being reliant on a stack of third parties just to have continued access to my favourite films isn't a prospect I look forward to.
- scarface74 8y agoThere are choices. You can buy content and spend more money or you can rent it. There is little video I care about owning. True, in the perfect world you would have something like iTunes + Apple Music for video. Where you can buy DRM free music and subscribe to receive music with stricter rights and mix the two. Microsoft back in the day had the perfect model for subscription music with the Zune. You subscribed to unlimited music and and you got credit to buy 10 songs a month that were DRM free.
- oliwarner 8y agoChoice? You cannot buy mainstream video content without DRM. At all. If you want to buy-to-keep something Netflix or Amazon makes, you have to wait for them to release a disc version, and rip it yourself. If they don't sell it? You're outta luck. What happens if they stop licensing something from its creator? Gone. What happens if nobody licenses it from its creator? You're stuck. And as we head deeper and deeper into this chaos, further away from traditional distribution into digital only, our choices are going to become easier and easier to steer, and subvert. RMS wants all media available without DRM. If that means fighting a slippery-slope of convenience, that'll have to do. This is, after all, exactly what he's been doing most of his adult life.