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Thanks, as someone outside the media producing business, I found this very interesting to read. I often like to think that we don't really need big budget prod

Thanks, as someone outside the media producing business, I found this very interesting to read. I often like to think that we don't really need big budget productions; sure, they're fun but they are stifling our culture with marketing, big name actors, risk/controversy-free scripts. Distribution is the other big problem. The internet has changed/balanced things and it looks like DRM is just attempts to curb that. My sincere questions for you: In the end, do you consider DRM good for you? Also, aren't you afraid that if we keep going like this, with DRM embedded in our OSes and processors (with no alternatives), we will soon reach a point of no return? I'm talking App-Store like distribution, where they get 30% and handle everything for you, even what you're allowed to say.

anigbrowl 12y ago
I consider DRM a slight net positive - not because it prevents copying, but because it makes it somewhat inconvenient, and thus provides an economic incentive to use a commercial service, where the DRM is implemented transparently. No, I'm not afraid about the OS thing to be honest. In ~30 years of using computers the trend has continually been in favor of openness, and I think anxiety over DRM taking over OSes and CPUs is wildly overblown, and largely a psychological projection of sociopolitical anxiety. I'm talking App-Store like distribution, where they get 30% and handle everything for you, even what you're allowed to say. Well it's not like the existence of DRM means you lose the ability to give it away in another format if nobody wants to publish it on a commercial platform. This, too, is continually getting better in historical terms, and it's an issue I care very much about personally.