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This is completely wrongheaded. We don't want legal characterizations of these transactions to be "licenses". If what we pay money for is a good that we purchas
by sean_hogle 14y ago
This is completely wrongheaded. We don't want legal characterizations of these transactions to be "licenses". If what we pay money for is a good that we purchased, we get to keep that copy - and sell it if we no longer want it. Who cares if there's DRM on it. There will always be DRM on it. Without DRM there's no way we'd be able to resell the copy that we purchased. Apple recently received a patent on this very topic.
- dendory 14y agoYou miss the point. DRMed digital goods cannot be resold. When you go to Kindle and get an ebook, all of the buttons say buy prominently, yet everything in the license says you are merely renting it for an undetermined amount of time, until the company decides otherwise. How is that not false advertising? They should be forced to change their text.
- sean_hogle 14y agoOf course DRM-enabled goods can be digitally resold. It depends on the type of DRM being used. That would be one reason to have DRM. As I said, Apple is working on this now.
- kefka 14y agoDoes the restriction and ledger of BitCoin also implement so called DRM? It does implement technological and other measures to guarantee the security of the whole blockchain. (yes, it is a strained analogy, however one you would have to go up against in making new law or changing old laws)
- dangrossman 14y ago> Without DRM there's no way we'd be able to resell the copy that we purchased. It's not clear what you mean by this. We didn't need DRM to resell music, movies, books before computers.