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DRM From the Viewpoint of the Electronic Industry
mike449 writes "The cover story of the Oct.16 issue of EDN magazine is about the recent trends in DRM. It is not just a technical article. The author tries to convey what people who are supposed to design and implement access restriction measures think about their feasibility and associated economic, legal and moral issues. 'Of course, you can always try charging a reasonable price and trusting people to be honest. Just think of all the money you'll save not having to implement DRM'."
Charging a reasonable price and trusting people to be honest?!
Where has that ever gotten anyone?
It's like sex, except I'm having it!
If DRM is such a miserable idea that will be so easily circumvented, why does the /. community spend so much time venting about it? Don't tell me that it's because you all care so much about the common man. This is the same group that loves to ridicule people for using Windows or calls the general public sheep because they don't keep abreast of the latest Internet Free Speech cause.
Could it be that most here realize that they won't be able to easily pilfer the latest copyrighted works quite so easily anymore, or that information won't want to be quite so free anymore?
If DRM is such a bad idea, let it fail in the marketplace. Ths odds are though, that DRM - paricularly at the hardware level - will be at least somewhat successful at preventing the theft of copyrighted works in the future. Sure, the general public may have sime minor inconveniences during the initial phase-in period. These will be addressed and solved eventually, however, or DRM will go away.
"War is God's way of teaching Americans geography." -- Ambrose Bierce
What crack are you smoking?
Anyone with an under 500 is back from the Bit's and Bytes days circa: 1995-6. I haven't seen an under four digit account post in months. Most of them have been chased off to greener pastures by annoying trolls like you.
Oh yeah, change to content of your posts, you look like a jackass.