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DRM is designed to favor middle men (RIAA, MPAA) as opposed to actual creators and artists.
by adharmad 17y ago
DRM is designed to favor middle men (RIAA, MPAA) as opposed to actual creators and artists.
- marchdown 17y agoCould you elaborate on that, please? It seems that RIAA and MPAA are the luckiest of these middle men and the most persistent, and that is why they came to make such a huge profit from what was relatively obscure nook of an intellectual property regulation. After all, the concept of an artist having the privileged right to his, already published, work comes first, and all the delegations and copyright issues come second. DRM is designed to keep power in the hands of rights holder, the creator, and, by necessity, away from the consumer, and only the monstrous bulk of MPAA allowed them to effectively pretend that they are not the simple middle men, but the focus and origin of all the rights that anybody can ever have on IP.
- grandalf 17y agoSuppose I buy a copy of Acid Pro and create an awesome dance mix using some Jay Z and some Garth Brooks. In an ideal DRM'ed world, I could set a price for this song and sell it via bittorrent -- the original license holders of the songs would each get their cut but if I charged $3 then I'd get a dollar for each sale (for example). DRM is the sort of technology that could enable this kind of free, expressive creation. That we don't have it is a failure of businesses to come up with creative licensing terms, not a failure of DRM technology.