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What DRM does is makes the 'pirate' goods, the 'hacked' players, the illegitimate rips, better, more usable, more flexible, and generally superior in every way
by jamesbrownuhh 12y ago
What DRM does is makes the 'pirate' goods, the 'hacked' players, the illegitimate rips, better, more usable, more flexible, and generally superior in every way to the officially released product.
Which I'm sure is not the intention.
Say I can't copy-and-paste a section from an eBook or run it through a speech reader? Tell me I can't skip the trailers before watching the DVD I have paid for? No. Fuck you. Bullshit like that is a red rag to a bull - you just created an army of people who'll bust off your "rights management" just to show you how wrong you are, and that YOU DO NOT GET TO DECIDE how people consume the things they own.
Sorry and all. But that's how it is.
- jeremyjh 12y agoI own some DVDs, but I don't own any movies. If you want to own a movie, you pretty much have to make it yourself.
- jamesbrownuhh 12y agoTruthfully, these days I actually find more value in most "self-made media" the anything that "the organised content industry" has to offer.
- userbinator 12y agoSummarised succinctly by this image: http://cdn.techpp.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/gxzev.jpg http://cdn.techpp.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/gxzev.jpg
- josho 12y agoUnfortunately, these companies are often quite subtle and make the initial product much better than predecessors. For example, my experience with the early DVDs was that they had no unskippable content. Then, years later after I had tossed my VCR every new DVD seemed to have all kinds of crap front loaded that I couldn't skip. So, DRM done right from the content owner's perspective makes the early experience quite better than what it displaces. Once everyone is locked into the format, then the DRM switches start to tighten and its too late for consumers to move on. Of course there are counter examples, like you mention, but what scares me about DRM is how if it's done right, nobody will mind DRM at first because it's better than the old way of doing things. Then one day, we all wake up and realize that we've been tricked because we are locked in and can't change. Today, we all love Netflix, but I wonder what the experience will be once disks have vanished and their growth slows. At that point will we experience FBI warnings, forced ads & trailers?
- thyrsus 12y agoI was going to buy a Kobo to read technical documents, but then I saw they don't support non-DRM pdf. No sale. The last e-reader I bought four years ago was cheap, with atrocious touch screen response, but it would display my PDFs. After it broke, I just went back to my laptop. If someone would like to recommend something, I'd appreciate it. Something with the physical traits of an e-ink Kindle without the 1984 ecosystem.
- dredmorbius 12y agoWait: Kobo won't present a PDF which doesn't contain DRM?
- hornetblack 12y agoI know my Dad got the GCC manual on his Kindle, he never registered the thing. As he is not a big fan of DRM. Although the tool he uses isn't the most usable thing.
- nshepperd 12y agoI have a 2011 Kobo Touch, it works fine to display any epub or PDF I put on it, including PDFs I've made myself. Is there some new restriction on the newer models?
- kuschku 12y agoYou see this right now in the internet community around the Disney Movie Frozen. Most people there own a BluRay of the movie, but we're still using the torrents or video streams for all kind of remixing or for watching them together because we don't have to care about the DRM this way. Most people only buy the BluRay to give Disney further reason to produce a second movie – so more like you'd donate to an OpenSource project.