Hi, Rudolf Streif wrote: > I agree that the term "intellectual property" is emotionally loaded but > that must not distract from a rational discussion around a security > framework for MeeGo supporting DRM/CA.
Ah - in the case of DRM, we're talking about technological measures which enable copyright holders to prevent illegal (and legal) copying. So nothing to do with patents, trademark or trade secrets then. > For a owner and user of such a device that may indeed mean that during > the period of time when content is received and rendered the user may be > required to surrender some of the rights that otherwise could be covered > by "reasonable fair use" (although that's a rather vague definition). My personal opinion is that we should never prevent our users from doing something which they are legally entitled to do with a technological measure. But then, I know that this is not the current thinking in the industry. Things like making private copies of DVDs I buy, for example, should be possible. > Movie studios and premium TV producers commonly do not consider it > "reasonable fair use" of a hardware/software platform when it is used to > siphon off the data streams of their content from decoders/decryptors or > HDMI ports for storage or other use. For instance, if you want to watch > Avatar on your device then you most likely will not be allowed to store > it on a USB stick or a hard drive or do other things with it that you > are allowed with content that you produced yourself. A good security > concept for MeeGo must be able to distinguish these use cases. Indeed, saving streams might not be legally OK. I know that when I recorded music onto cassettes in the 80s the music industry wasn't very keen on it either. Does that mean that companies building hi-fis in the '80s were moral bound not to have a record button on their tape decks? Anyway - as you point out, DRM is required by device manufacturers now, and by content distributors, so we should at least provide the capability to those who want it to be a relevant platform. We should, however, do our part to discourage the systematic use of DRM in digital media distribution. Cheers, Dave. -- maemo.org docsmaster Email: [email protected] Jabber: [email protected] _______________________________________________ MeeGo-community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-community
