Jason Boxman wrote:
> Paul M Foster wrote:
>> Levi Bard wrote:
>>>> See my point was that DRM was not the only solution for copy righted
>>>> content. But as a component of the desktop. See what I dont understand
>>>> is
>>>> people will watch drm DVDs but music everyone throws a fit.
>>> I'm pretty sure you're older than I am, and if you don't remember the
>>> absolute fits people threw about DVD-CSS, then you may need to ask
>>> your doctor about some kind of proactive Alzheimers treatment.
>>>
>> I'm pretty sure I'm older than both of you, and I don't remember this.
>> Yes, in the Linux and free software community, but otherwise I don't
>> recall Joe L. User squawking very loud about this.
>>
>> *We* bitch about a lot of things, and the computer press bitches about a
>> lot of things, but most of them aren't even a blip on the radar of the
>> average computer user.
>
> Indeed.
>
> The problem is freedom slipped out of the bottle with digital music. People
> like it.
>
> If DVDs originally shipped without forced segments or you could optionally
> 'just play' the movie, then along came a system where your original
> experience was crippled, I think people would take offense.
>
> DRM is attempt to reconcile this situation with all current and future
> digial media.
>
Here's an example of an aggravation people have learned to put up with.
How many times have you popped in a DVD and been forced to sit through:
1) The "COPYING A DVD IS *THEFT* message, as told by a jerky short film.
2) The ubiquitous FBI warning, both in English and French.
3) Previews of movies you're not interested in.
You can't stop them. You can't hit "Menu" and get out of them. The best
you can do sometimes is hit "Fast Forward" so you don't have to listen
to the crap for the umpteenth time.
How many people have complained to Universal and Paramount about this?
Has any complaining by anyone stopped it?
DRM will have to be a *lot* more aggravating than that for people to
complain voluminously and loudly enough to make a difference. I'm not
saying it won't happen. But a lot of money has been poured into the
infrastructure of this stuff to make it as painless as possible for
users, just to mediate that effect. Sony dropped the CD copy protection
they had when enough fuss was made about it. But they're not done with
copy protection. And DRM isn't just one company. It's a whole industry.
I'm not sure a Paul Revere action by us is going to be the thing that
changes content distributors' minds on DRM.
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