When Would You Accept DRM?

twigles asks: "Following on the heels of Apple closing DVD Jon's end run around its DRM and a British TV station offering DRM'd downloads it seems fair to ask, what DRM would you accept as a consumer? Personally, I take the view that if a song, movie, book, etc. is DRM'd then it isn't truly mine. On the other hand, if a particular piece of digital media is priced correctly (a la' rental fee) would that be satisfactory, or do you feel that DRM in any form is ridiculous?"

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I also agree.

[2names]

Not to go all Roswell on everyone...

Now, let's just wait and see if the ubiquitous "THEY" start trying to apply some DRM-like techniques to books, newspapers, magazines, pamphlets, speech, etc...

Re:Never

[ePhil_One]

I will accept your DRMed media if you except my DRMed cash

If you don't accept the terms, don't buy the media. Whats so hard about that? Just don't use it to justify obtaining the content in a non-legal way. Those are the terms the people who paid for the content offered, as the previous posters pointed out, you are buying a license to the content, you don't own the song itself. If it did work that way, I could have made a fortune selling Nike the rights to my Beatles White album.

P.S. I dont think the parent you are replying to mentioned anything about the theft you keep bandying around.

Better check you eyes bud, I didn't use that word. Nor the homonym for steel. I don't think any of us mentioned that you support puppy defenestration, either

Re:Never

[anno1a]

Clap it with me:
Co-py-right

You are granted the right to use what they made in some restricted fashion, when you pay them money. This is the law (and you know the law, don't you? You have to! It's the law)!

Now, speaking about danish conditions, a lot of tax was payed when we bought blank tapes to compensate the artists for lost profit. This is also why we have to pay money for each copy when we use a photocopy machine. The main difference between analog tapes and digital cds is that you can now copy the work losslessly. The music/movie industry finds this very troublesome, so they demand that stricter laws must apply. So now you (we) don't pay as much tax on blank media, but we aren't allowed to do as much with our purchased goods.