Hollywood's DRM Agenda Moving Forward

risingphoenix writes "The New York Times has a story about the progress Hollywood has made putting Digtal Rights Management in the marketplace. The story focuses on what technology is currently in place; what the next moves, technically and legally, are for the industry and how consumers are being affected by Hollywoods power grab."

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plural acronyms

[quikgrit]

This year, several of the major music companies have said they plan to begin embedding copy-protection technologies on a sizable percentage of their CD's. DVD's are already protected by a digital wrapper that prevents them from being copied.

http://www.ucc.ie/acronyms/

From laymen, this is expected. From a journalist, who is supposed to understand basic grammar rules as part of the job, this is just sad. And in the New York Times, no less.

They make you *register* for this?!

Re:Speed bumps

[Kragg]

The biggest problem with all these DRM schemes is that the restrictions are pointlessly complex so the consumer can't understand them. The other closely connected problem is not telling the customer about them.

Um, hello? What planet are you from where you can confuse people with things that you don't even need to tell them about? This is exactly the kind of passion-fired stupidity that we really don't need.

Either the DRM is complex. Then people don't understand it.
Or it is seamless. Then you don't tell them about it.

Are you saying you don't want either? Because DRM has to happen, it's a fact of life. Personally I'd go for seamless anyday.