Re: Open Source DRM? What does everyone think about it? Will Open Source DRM ever catch up to MS DRM?

From: Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz (spamtrap_at_library.lspace.org.invalid)
Date: 08/30/05

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    In <slrndh6aaa.57e.nobody@lwe125529.cse.tek.com>, on 08/29/2005
       at 03:27 PM, nobody@tek.com (Kevin the Drummer) said:

    >Regardless of what anyone thinks of RIAA and MPAA, some real people
    >are out there writing books, songs & whatever to pay for their
    >housing & food.

    I'm willing to pay for content. I'm not willing to send my fair use
    rights to Dave Null. Unless someone comes up with a DRM scheme that
    doesn't get underfoot, I won 't spend any money on anything that
    requires DRM.

    >Until they individually have some way to
    >market their own works, they'll be stuck selling to "the big guys"
    >who take a HUGE percentage of the money. I think Open Source DRM
    >would help the people who actually create the content.

    K3wl! That doesn't justify screwing their audience. It's note the
    authors, composers and performers who are pushing DRM; its the
    publishers and studios. If you really want to help the artists et al,
    find a good way to liberate them from the megacorporations that are
    currently ripping them off; there's a pattern of abuse going back at
    least decades, with various tactics included cooked books understating
    the royalties due and various antitrust violations. 

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