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- fuzzmeister, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15Here is the way to beat piracy: make a store so effortless and so attractive, that there is no incentive to go through the effort to get it illegally. Imagine that there was an online store where you could buy any song, movie, TV show, or book ever made, in impeccable quality with insanely fast transfer speeds (speeds that no illegal method could ever hope to match), at reasonable prices with no DRM. Wouldn't you pay a small sum to use that rather than go through the effort of finding a good-quality torrent and waiting days for it to download?
- dsmx, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10DRM only effects legitimate purchasers, so what is the point of DRM?
- AttackingHobo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9In other news, hackers have announced the perfect movie ripping software.
- bluetagpizza, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9Another superb article by Cory Doctorow. DRM only hurts honest, paying customers. Why would someone want to pay for a version of a product that is inferior to the version they could download for free? Do they really think they can modify human nature to suit their business model?
- itsfullofstars, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Part of me hopes they never learn to change their business model and disappear altogether. It's time for someone else to make tons of money. It's time for someone who matters to make it.
- mmzplanet, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7They can try... but will always fail. No matter how copy protected it gets.... there is always a way to unprotect it, even if you only use a sharpie.
- ArchonSG, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5DRM needs to die.
People who don't want to pay for the songs, movies or whatever crap software aren't going to buy said DRM laden stuff just because you just made it harder to use. - Phyltre, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4The movie-making process, distribution, and the people involved are inevitably going to change. However, the middlemen/owners/investors probably won't--supposedly ~90% of all entertainment outfits in the US are owned by 5 parent corporations. That kind of bloc doesn't just disappear with a shift in the market.
- AlfaSub, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Finally, someone in the mainstream gets it.
Now we just need the idiots in the RIAA and MPAA to understand the futility of throwing money at DRM schemes. - LordSkywalker, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I definitely disagree. With the internet used as a content distribution system, someone could make a great movie and sell it online with an audience of millions and still choose not to sign a distribution contract with one of the Big 5.
- ArchonSG, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I think the key phrase here is "reasonably priced". Stuff you get off torrents are "free". Open sourced distribution is of course legal, but I doubt anyone here hasn't visited the piratebay before. Hence the point is, people who don't want to buy or pay for the work of others will not buy or pay no matter what. They'll just find ways around DRM or wait for pirated stuff to show up simply because they had NO intention to buy in the first place at all.
I do agree with you though, keep it cheap, easy to buy, and DRM free, someone who might not have bought the software due to difficulties in getting the product or has issues with DRM would do so in a heart beat. - sockpuppets, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4You just posted that at the speed of light, forrest.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Some people are willing to pay, some will be content to steal.
Your job as a producer is to make sure that the people that are willing to pay are satisfied with your product so they don't start stealing. Satisfaction means fast downloading, high bitrates and No DRM. It's just that simple. - geminitojanus, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Let me be the first to congratulate you on reading the article past the first sentence.
- kitwaites, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2They aren't showing much hope at the moment. I stopped buying DVDs when they started adding the insulting "piracy is a crime" ***** at the start of every DVD that was impossible to skip. I wouldn't go into a shop and pay £15 if they had a security guard shout "Don't steal, we'll catch you and rape you for every penny you've got" when I walked in, why should I accept it on a DVD.
I now pirate movies I want to see and support independent films by seeing them at my local independent cinema - no ads, no *****, just the film. Way to go MPAA - your persecution of your customers is only hurting yourself and your profits. - Cirrius, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2When will they realize they can't break the online piracy system? The only option that lets them win is to beat it with a distribution model that makes it easier to obtain a legal copy than to obtain a pirated copy.
And frankly they can go to hell with DRM. Once I have purchased a copy, its mine and I can do whatever I want to with it. I don't support piracy, but draconian measures against the people who are ACTUALLY BUYING legitimate copies only drive MORE people to look towards illegal copies that are free from all of their crap. How about selling me a dvd that I can put in and it actually PLAYS the movie, instead of forcing me to watch trailers for movies I didn't just purchase, and then make threats against me should I use my newly purchased property in any manner they don't see fit. - kronix2, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2The point of DRM was to make piracy inconvenient and preferably impractical for casual users.
While casual users can't crack the DRM themselves, they don't need to. They can simply grab the torrent, saving themselves hours of encoding and the price of a cinema ticket or DVD. - argonaut99, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Great article and shows why they should take all that DRM research and lobbying money and put it toward something that will get the return on their investment: paying for great writers and great stories. I'll gladly pay for media that is _worth_ paying for.
For every Casino Royale, Natasha Bedingfield, Teddy Geiger, or Batman Begins (which I would and have paid for) there are 10 Daddy Daycamps (or other recent Cuba Gooding movies) and 50 poorly written songs from crappy bands or singers that only get promoted because they gave some RIAA suit a woody. That is the crap I wouldn't and won't pay for. - rwtf91, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4Pushing the umpossible
- Crash1337, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2The perfect copy protection system is no copy protection at all.
There will always be ways to get around it, they should just give up already. - sockpuppets, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2I'm a stapler.
- blackwallet, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1"Wouldn't you pay a small sum to use that rather than go through the effort of finding a good-quality torrent and waiting days for it to download?"
No.
- markajanssen, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Except by the time you've spent all the money to make this and maintain the "insanely fast transfer speeds" then your cost goes too high. Furthermore this only works until your pirates get a decent connection that can entice people again.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I thought that was a superbly done article. The mainstream media finally "gets it"
I especially liked this line...
"Banks, spies, retailers, child pornographers and your web browser all use the same basic set of ciphers." - henrik.falk, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1These things can never work. By necessity the customer always have the decryption key (for actually using the data), the unencrypted data (say the movie actually showing on your tv) and the encrypted data (say what's stored on the DVD). See the problem?
- Useight, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1The best protection is abstinence. Er, that was about something else.
- yujie, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Best protection is no protection for stuff like this
- hiPpymIck, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1this free stuff is made by bands while theyre on tour and in one take
.. so its what they sound like live
http://www.daytrotter.com/ - EntangledPhysx, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I heard its to lock you into a certain player or smoething like that... because really, with piracy at an all time high, and DRM also at an all time high... it stands to reason... WHAT IS DRM FOR????
- Sphonix, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1If it can be decoded by something then the encryption can be broken. Simple.
- EntangledPhysx, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Exactly. I'm one of those that are willing to pay for DRM free music.
- EntangledPhysx, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I remember the staple of DVD technology when it first came out "you can skip right through the previews!" then I got a DVD where it would NOT let you fast forward through the previews.. you had to watch them like a VHS tape! i was so pissed i didnt watch the movie.
- EntangledPhysx, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1"Wouldn't you pay a small sum to use that rather than go through the effort of finding a good-quality torrent and waiting days for it to download?"
Yes. I'm waiting for the next DRM-free music store that has all the main stream music plus my fav bands. The convenience, i would pay for in a heart beat. But until then I have no choice but to pirate... i really dont. =(
BTW i dont pirate, i just listen to music on the radio! - EntangledPhysx, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1you mean to put "better" in quotes, right?
- toastmonster, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0bring it on, DRM
- jcaino, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1i hope the don't change and also disappear. not for monetary reasons, but rather just to see the MPAA/RIAA dinosaur go down in flames. there's no need for them anymore -this is the information age. musicians/bands/producers can easily interface with the customer or find a variety of outlets to handle distribution for/with them.
- hotcod, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Odd as it is this is true, the only true way to dmr a disk is not to give it to any one. Even if they could lock down the disk the simple fact of the matter is that so long as the dvd is outputting to a tv and that tv is putting out light and sound there will be a way to copy the thing. Even if its as crude as a video cam in front of the tv it can still be done. But its just far simpler to crack the thing anyway.
- TrnsltLife, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1FTL FTW!
- fkr3, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1Funny how someone could and yet nobody has. The tools to do so are all there so what's the holdup?
Only the distribution method is going to change and the funny part is, it already did. What people want to see is it now morph into some wholesale "everything you want but don't want to pay for is now free!" business model, which doesn't exist outside of teenage fantasies. - no3dalefan, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0If we could build a spaceship that would accelerate at only 1G continuous, in just under a year we would be at the speed of light, except that Einstein said that it takes more power as we approach the speed of light. Maybe Muslix64 could hack this for us. I'm ready to meet some Vulcans.
- Piedramente, on 10/10/2007, -8/+2More vaporware. We are nowhere close to actually breaking the speed of light (with actual information)
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