arstechnica.com— BitTorrent cofounder Ashwin Navin believes that DRM is not the answer to legal online video services despite his company's getting ready to launch its own DRM-based movie service in the near future.
Sep 22, 2006View in Crawl 4
DRM infringes YOUR rights. There is no DRM scheme that's unbreakable, and there never will be. The sooner the record companies and movie industry realise this, the sooner they'll start making and releasing product that's good eough to PAY for! At the moment, the material distributed by the major record labels and film studios is generally abysmal (though there's the occasional nugget amongst the dross) and just not worth paying to hear or see. The bizarre thing is that they blame their ever-reducing sales on piracy, when it's just that nobody's actually interested in their "product" anymore!
Burning them to an audio cd is NOT equal to transferring (which refers to a lossless bit by bit copy). Burning is more like putting a digital tape recorder in you speaker jack. Apple 'allows' this because there's nothing they can do to stop it (see analog hole).
cbizSep 22, 2006
The challenge for the copyright holder is to have a great product. DRM might not fit that bill. It could go away in time.
hackwrenchSep 23, 2006
What's intrinsicly wrong with giving something they want until they come to the conclusion themselves that it is inferior?
geekeeSep 23, 2006
No DRM is old and busted as well, unfortunately. People can't be trusted.
Closed AccountSep 23, 2006
DRM infringes YOUR rights. There is no DRM scheme that's unbreakable, and there never will be. The sooner the record companies and movie industry realise this, the sooner they'll start making and releasing product that's good eough to PAY for! At the moment, the material distributed by the major record labels and film studios is generally abysmal (though there's the occasional nugget amongst the dross) and just not worth paying to hear or see. The bizarre thing is that they blame their ever-reducing sales on piracy, when it's just that nobody's actually interested in their "product" anymore!
mofokerSep 23, 2006
doesn't everyone and their grandma block ad's because of the nuisance they are
managemyrightsSep 23, 2006
Burning them to an audio cd is NOT equal to transferring (which refers to a lossless bit by bit copy). Burning is more like putting a digital tape recorder in you speaker jack. Apple 'allows' this because there's nothing they can do to stop it (see analog hole).
himselfSep 26, 2006
"despite" him frightening away investors