Hi Denver, THERE IS AN INCENTIVE!
Independent filmmakers will be all over this, starting with me. Independents can release content sans DRM, even if corporations won't. If you build it, they will come. "Sita Sings the Blues" is a damn viable way to start this. The film is in much demand, it's going to over 80 film festivals and more contacting us every day, it's won major awards. http://www.sitasingstheblues.com/ The film already has lots of press (BBC World, WIRED, Variety, Premiere, tons more around the world) and lots more press opps on the way - so many I'm turning down interviews for lack of time. But if this player were available, allowing me to release the film this new way, I'd be promoting the heck out of the player and release at every opportunity. And I would only be the first. Lots of other independent filmmakers will jump on this once they understand. I'll release everything sans DRM, of course, like any respectable artist would. It would be totally legal. We CAN do something about this. --Nina On Sep 6, 2008, at 12:47 PM, Denver Gingerich wrote: > On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 9:00 PM, Nina Paley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi all, >> I have this crazy idea for delivering a blow against synch licensing. >> The article has a lot of hypertext, so it's best to read at >> http://blog.ninapaley.com/2008/09/05/the-bright-side-of-the-dark-side-of-the-rainbow/ >> This idea will need a lot of help and collaboration to work, but if >> it does, >> it has a lot of potential. >> Thoughts? Ideas? Help? > > The main issue with making an open source player to synchronize audio > and video from different sources is that most legally-acquired audio > and video sources have DRM. There is no technical barrier to breaking > these DRM schemes (pretty much every scheme out there has been > broken), but the laws of the United States and many other countries > make it illegal to create software to break DRM and to distribute > software that breaks DRM. > > So it's a nice idea, but until we have more audio and video sources > legally available in DRM-free formats, there is not a lot of incentive > to create such a program. As an open source developer, this hurts me > deeply, but there's not much I can do about it until governments stop > providing legal protection for DRM. > > Denver _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
