Hi all,
I have been watching this debate with great interest....
As a recording engineer/producer of 20 years, I have many examples of
the different views expressed here. I also have digital content
waiting to be released on the unsuspecting public sometime in the
future, or when I can find a manner to secure the rights for the
artists involved. As ever, that is truly complicated.
Technically speaking, I wonder whether others have thought about self
destructive files?
If a producer is willing to give away his work completely for free
for example, thereby losing his/her rights of distribution through
the internet, could one of the best "DRM" type features be that the
file itself will disappear from the users desktop/hard-drive at some
pre-programmed date?
I know this is similar to the BBC's 7 day restriction, but if the
file actually deleted itself then the "value" would appear in people
returning to the same web-site to download new copies, without
restrictions of where they could be played. In this case the user/
customer would actually be engaged without having to make any effort
to sort their own digital data, which may lead to far less copying.
Obviously people could still make their own physical copies, but I
think most would agree that the vast majority would not, ie... how
many here know of anyone that makes DVD's of You-tube content?
I will be very interested if such a management system already exists.
All the best
RichE
On 1 Feb 2007, at 09:19, Andrew Bowden wrote:
And I'm sure the proposal for "Linux DRM" will go down well in the
FLOSS
community, as well as a lead balloon anyway. I can see the slashdot
headline already: "BBC proposing DRM for Linux"
Well there are pretty obvious divisions in the community. A lot of
people have recently gone on the record as saying that the platform
needs DRM to survive, others are vehamontly opposed to it on
idiological
groups. Linus has of course, said his thing.
However as no one is really producing DRM'd content on a large scale
(that I'm aware of) it's very hard to know what the balance of
views is.
It's actually going to need someone to start doing it, before we
see how
the community reacts in practise. Seeing it in use will be, IMHO,
a far
more interesting test!
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