GeoDRM is needed for legitimate open data collection communities.
If you want to set up a Geographic Wiki, where users can edit, update
and maintain geographic data, you have 2 options:
1. Let everyone change data (which is likely to include intentionally
and unintentionally corrupt data).
2. Set up a trust system where only trusted users can validate data or
enter certain features.
Both cases will have their uses and both will promote open geographic data.
SteveC wrote:
* @ 15/10/06 05:51:02 PM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I imagine this drm effort, if it such, will fail just like all the
others.
Which DRM failures do you have in mind? iPod? Macrovision, which you
reference later as a failure and yet is shipped in every video device in
the US? Or maybe Windows Trusted Computing? Too early to say if that
will be a failure or not, but it sure will be a pain in the neck.
DRM is a technical failure because what they're trying to do is
And that is what I meant.
technically impossible. But DRM is a business success and, alas, a
technical impediment that we are increasingly subject to with digital
video and audio. Even stupid completely compromised DRM like DVD copy
protection is still deployed widely making things expensive for device
manufacturers and users. You can't dismiss DRM.
I can personally, as I'm sure I'll be able to get around it. I also
pointed out the economic imperative.
We're at the beginning of the development of some amazing
location-specific data and services. My biggest fear is that these
businesses are going to be built where their entire business model is
"we have the only source of data and we protect it with all the DRM we
can muster". If that happens, the result will be that a lot of
interesting legitimate businesses will be impeded and we'll be left
having to steal data and use modchips to do powerful things with
You mean infringe.
geographic data.
Well, by this stage I'm sure openstreetmap or similar will have
comparable or better data for most use cases...
have fun,
SteveC [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.asklater.com/steve/
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