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Sun Spearheads Open DRM

Posted by Hemos on from the better-to-embrace-then-be-destroyed dept.

Steve from Hexus writes "If DRM is the future of controlling our media files, then perhaps the open source community can at the very least ensure that the dominant delivery system is an open standard. Hexus.net reports that Sun is spearheading a new open DRM project, which their lab workers and the open source community can contribute to. More information on project DReaM can be found at the Open Media Commons website." Tough call - DRM is coming (Or is already here), one way or another, and is better to work on creating something done right, or to object to it on moral grounds?

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  1. Flawed prospectus by uprock_x · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I don't wish to take easy potshots at slashdot but why do you ape the language of big news corporations in your story:

    If DRM is the future of controlling our media files

    There is no 'our' media.

    DRM is coming

    Look, all of this is a nonsense. Really the world is splitting into two directions; those who believe passionately in freedom and control over their own lives and those who haven't quite woken up to the value of, or understood what that means.

    There is nothing else. DRM is haxx0r bait to be circumvented and stamped on. It's there to protect the traditional structures, the big corporations primarily. Some smaller outlets may find a use for it occasionally, but it's not there for them. There is so much good media out there with no DRM and those outlets manage to survive and thrive so I think that reveals quite a lot.

    Forced DRM is not compatible with any concept of normal use or freedom or control over one's own systems and files as far as I can ascertain.

    As far as Sun goes, to be honest it's preferable in the sense that an open standard is probably better than a closed one, but all said it's working under the erroneous presumption that some sort of wooly, cowering compliance and affection for DRM is about to take over the world, which it won't.