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Not all "geeks" oppose DRM. I for example think DRM is great.
by School-Cotton 4y ago
Not all "geeks" oppose DRM. I for example think DRM is great.
- sky-kedge0749 4y agoYou don't really think it's "great", do you? More like, an acceptable trade-off? I'd love to hear the argument if you actually are pro-DRM as a thing in itself.
- School-Cotton 4y agoI’m not claiming there are no downsides to DRM — the fact that it makes it hard or impossible to copy things one has legitimately purchased is clearly a negative. However, I think making piracy more difficult is valuable and more socially important than the downsides. In an ideal world we would subsidize content consumption for those who can’t afford it (we already do this via public libraries, and public funding of content creation in many countries, but we should do more) and also more strictly enforce laws against piracy by shutting down torrent trackers. Then we wouldn’t need DRM. But until this pipe dream comes true, I think DRM is valuable.
- api 4y agoI thought about creating "OpenDRM" once, an open source DRM library. It was with another job in the past. "But that's silly! You can strip it off!" Of course you can, and you can strip DRM off proprietary DRM schemes too. All of them are cracked. That's not the point. The point is that there's a way for someone to indicate their usage terms along with a piece of media. An OpenDRM would not even necessarily encrypt, or would do so only in a very trivial way. It would instead be a standard for indicating terms of use and automatically checking for licensing entitlements.
- blooalien 4y agohttps://www.defectivebydesign.org/ https://www.defectivebydesign.org/