On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 00:46, George Nassas wrote: > On 2-Nov-05, at 11:59 AM, Dewey Smolka wrote:
> I agree. People are open to measures that are reasonable but DRMing > everything with a moving part isn't. On the other hand I haven't really > heard the people against DRM, and I'm one, say what would be OK. If I > was a movie producer and I had just spent twenty million on a negative > I'd be pretty unhappy when people started making copies for free. > Clearly something needs to be done and I'm wondering what people think > that should be. Relying on the honour system, as we do now, isn't > working out too good. Most people don't even know what DRM is. It has not affected them directly, yet, so they are not concerned about it. Like most things it will have to directly affect a large number of people as well as a number of the right people for this to get noticed and action started to fix it. The movie/tv industry has a window of opportunity to get DRM embedded in the new consumer electronics that will be coming out in the next few years. (HDTV, Blueray, high capacity DVD, etc.) It will be interesting to see how successful they are. If they put the screws to tight people will not adopt the new equipment. Why spend several hundred dollars on a new device that can not do what my old VHS can do? This should force the manufacturers of consumer electronics to build what sells to the public. Unfortunately it will take many years for things to balance out. And in between expect to seem some silly laws passed to prop up their attempt to control how/where/when you can watch the shows they produce. Maybe everyone will start reading books more. :)
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