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It's good enough now. They just have to give up on DRM.
by lucian1900 13y ago
It's good enough now. They just have to give up on DRM.
- Kiro 13y agoNo, proper DRM support is what will make it good.
- lucian1900 13y agoHow exactly do users benefit from DRM?
- stonemetal 13y agoIt allows them to access content that they otherwise couldn't.
- kra3 13y agoIsn't it the bad effect of DRM rather than a benefit!
- jayrox 13y agoDRM is only a hinderance to legit users. Pirates are pirates and DRM isn't something they deal with.
- Karunamon 13y agoUh, no. That's some impressive exec-level doublethink. Content is open by default. DRM is a method by which you prevent people from accessing content.
- stonemetal 13y agoHow so? This guy has a show he won't let me use unless I agree to try and control access. My choices are access with stupid crap like DRM or no access. Sure a third option like free access to everyone everywhere would be great, but that guy won't go for it. Until we can talk that guy in to going for it DRM increases access. Sure it doesn't grant maximal access but access is greater than it is without DRM.
- Karunamon 13y agoThen "this guy" you mention is ignorant of how technology and piracy work and any rational person should push back. DRM is not "necessary" by any possible meaning of the word. It's forced upon people by the ignorant.
- stonemetal 13y agoNecessary in the way that a drivers license and car insurance are necessary to drive.
- Karunamon 13y agoThere is a legitimate need to ensure that people who drive both know how to do so safely and can handle any accidents financially. There is no legitimate need to hamper fair use in the way that DRM does, especially considering that it fails at its goals.
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- josteink 13y agoI have yet to see a single use-case where DRM has improved my experience. Like most people, I have seen countless cases where DRM has significantly degraded it. Your statement is in dire need of things to back it up.
- freehunter 13y agoNetflix and Steam haven't improved your experience? Their very existence depends on DRM.
- ensignavenger 13y agoPhonographs and music CD's don't have DRM, yet they exist, and have been very profitable for studios. If DRM had never been invented, we would still probably have DVD's (whose DRM is so broken it may as well not exist) and Netflix.
- freehunter 13y agoThe discussion isn't "what exists", but rather "does DRM'd things improve the experience of the thing". Yes, there are DRM-free versions of things, or broken-DRM versions. Gog.com is a competitor to Steam that deals in DRM-free games, but their catalog isn't nearly as extensive because many studios won't put their games out there DRM-free. Steam freed us from CDs and DVDs that can get broken or lost, and freed us from typing in CD keys. That minor improvement was enough to make stores all but stop selling PC games. The question is, does Netflix streaming have a better experience than DVDs? I argue yes (as evidenced by the fact that Blockbuster is out of business and Netflix is booming). CDs don't have DRM but Spotify does. People use Spotify because it's more convenient. People don't use it because of the DRM, but studios are willing to trust it because it has DRM. The point I'm arguing against is "DRM has never improved the experience". I point to two things that exist because of DRM that are arguably more convenient and have a better UX than the DRM-free or broken-DRM versions.
- josteink 13y ago
- CmonDev 13y agoIt generally feels like a rich document that was hacked to be interactive enough to resemble a GUI.
- mikeryan 13y agoIt's barely acceptable even if they didn't need drm. You'd want HLS or some other adaptive bitrate switching technology as well as consistent support for H.264 video. Also it's not Netflix's choice the studios hoist DRM on them. Unless your solution is dropping the cast majority of their library in order to support the video tag.
- cbhl 13y agoUnfortunately, with EME in Chrome OS, content owners won't have to give up on DRM any time soon for Netflix to switch to HTML5. (On ARM-based Chromebooks, Netflix already uses an HTML5 interface.)