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The idea would be to allow the end user to do anything they wanted with the product but to price discriminate between different users and different use cases. S
by jiggy2011 12y ago
The idea would be to allow the end user to do anything they wanted with the product but to price discriminate between different users and different use cases. So it wouldn't be less convenient , simple more expensive in some cases but perhaps cheaper in others.
- dublinben 12y agoThis end user always wants to be free to make copies of his products, use them without an internet connection, share them with family members, and use them on any platform of my choosing, even converting them to a different format if necessary. No DRM system will allow me to do that, because that fundamentally challenges their control over the product. I'm happy to pay more for a product without DRM, but they're usually not available.
- jiggy2011 12y agoFrom a legal perspective you were never free to make additional copies for others without the permission of the copyright holder. Even format shifting was controversial in some jurisdictions. The idea of DRM would be to allow you to do these things, but have a mechanism to bill you for them. The problem at the moment is that the ecosystem for this is incomplete.
- dublinben 12y agoIt is absolutely legal to make a backup copy of a copyrighted work. [0] It is also legal to lend your purchased work to anyone you choose (making a copy). DRM prevents you from exercising your rights under the law. [0] http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-digital.html http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-digital.html
- jiggy2011 12y agoDRM doesn't inherently prevent you from doing either of those things.