CatBus;347772 Wrote: > But, the thing is, DRM does not protect the artist or record label, > strong copyright laws do. Pirates can and will circumvent every DRM > scheme created, but you can still prosecute them. That's how the law, > not DRM, protects content owners. And because human judges are > involved, all sorts of fair use exceptions are protected > too...theoretically at least... > > So as long as we're hypothesizing about the perfect DRM, we have to > come to terms with two uncomfortable facts: DRM will always be broken, > and DRM doesn't ever actually protect artists and labels. Other than > that, though, I don't have a problem with it either ;)
Exactly! So, therefore, I don't bother with it. The only thing DRM actually protects is the platform provider by dictating where and how I can use my purchased music. Now, put me on the board of directors at Apple or Microsoft and my response to any suggested changes to the music download part of the business: "leave it alone, change nothing. It's a cash cow and our DRM scheme is pushing our closed-source architecture hardware sales". But being on the other side of the fence, the consumer, I'll avoid platform based DRM till my dying day. -- toby10 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ toby10's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12553 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53460 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
