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So you're not culpable for your actions if you make a deal with the devil, just because it's to keep your business afloat?
by teacup50 12y ago
So you're not culpable for your actions if you make a deal with the devil, just because it's to keep your business afloat?
- EpicEng 12y agoLet's not be dramatic ("the devil", really?). Are you really saying that no Netflix is better than Netflix with browser DRM? I don't like the Hollywood players either, but it certainly shouldn't surprise anyone to learn that they don't want their content to be trivially copied and distributed outside of their control (read: death grip.) Personally, I'll take the Netflix we can have over no Netflix at all.
- teacup50 12y agoEthics aren't ethics if they can be abandoned for simple expediency.
- EpicEng 12y agoI'm not convinced that the "ethics" surrounding content protection are so cut and dry (I'm ignoring malware masked add DRM here as i don't believe or applies). I wish that Hollywood would get with the times. I wish they would give me affordable and reasonable mediums with which to watch their content. That said, i recognize that it is their content, and i don't think that their methods here make them "bad" or "evil". I think they're dinosaurs who are slow to change and afraid of losing money. I don't think this is a moral issue, nor do i believe that we have an inaliable right to watch Breaking Bad and Game of Thrones.
- teacup50 12y agoYou don't think that rent seeking is an ethical issue?
- EpicEng 12y agoI do, but I think it goes a level up. It's the political system that needs to change. I fully expect companies to use what means they have available to them in order to improve their business (to a point). I'n also not saying that they don't do anything unethical, I was speaking to the general idea of protecting their investment as it applies to DRM in your browser.