DareDevil
08-28-2006, 10:24 AM
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In a speech at the Red Hat Summit in Nashville last week, Doctorow said DRM was ineffective at protecting copyright material. He said a recent survey showed music protected by DRM was typically hacked and made available online without DRM protection within three minutes of the DRM version being published. Instead, he argued, DRM was actually designed to help vendors find new revenue streams from law-abiding customers. "For example, DRM combined with legislation such as the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act [DMCA] lets Apple sue firms that make [iPod-compatible devices]," he said. (...) Doctorow said the problem is not confined to the US because other countries around the world have laws similar to the DCMA.
http://www.itweek.co.uk/itweek/news/2157537/windows-vista-digital-rights
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Why am I not surprised? All this copyprotection and digital rights nonsense is only harassing honest customers while the thieves couldn't care less! :mad:
In a speech at the Red Hat Summit in Nashville last week, Doctorow said DRM was ineffective at protecting copyright material. He said a recent survey showed music protected by DRM was typically hacked and made available online without DRM protection within three minutes of the DRM version being published. Instead, he argued, DRM was actually designed to help vendors find new revenue streams from law-abiding customers. "For example, DRM combined with legislation such as the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act [DMCA] lets Apple sue firms that make [iPod-compatible devices]," he said. (...) Doctorow said the problem is not confined to the US because other countries around the world have laws similar to the DCMA.
http://www.itweek.co.uk/itweek/news/2157537/windows-vista-digital-rights
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Why am I not surprised? All this copyprotection and digital rights nonsense is only harassing honest customers while the thieves couldn't care less! :mad: