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HBO Exec Proposes DRM Name Change
surfingmarmot writes "An HBO executive has figured out the problem with DRM acceptance — it's the name. HBO's chief technology officer Bob Zitter now wants to refer to the technology as Digital Consumer Enablement. Because, you see, DRM actually helps consumers by getting more content into their hands. The company already has HD movies on demand ready to go, but is delaying them because of ownership concerns. Says Zitter, 'Digital Consumer Enablement would more accurately describe technology that allows consumers "to use content in ways they haven't before," such as enjoying TV shows and movies on portable video players like iPods. "I don't want to use the term DRM any longer," said Zitter, who added that content-protection technology could enable various new applications for cable operators.'"
I'm still waiting to see how long it takes these people to realize that they're actually driving piracy with every day they wait. They should consider the data gathered in the "freakanomics" research. The data clearly shows that most people are honest, and those that aren't simply aren't. If you offer up content at a fair price, the majority of users will purchase that content rather than resorting to illegal or immoral means to obtain it. Meanwhile, the DRM restrictions will do little to stop those looking for a free ride. They're not going to pay for it in the first place, so why worry about it now? If they can't get past your DRM scheme (not likely), they'll rip it from the DVDs or HD-DVDs.
The software industry had to learn the same thing many years ago. Copy protection annoyed the paying users while doing little to stop the pirates. Why can't anyone get that lesson through their head?
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Shit isn't of any higher value by calling it gold.
Consumer Rights Access Program
mod me funny
A turd by any other name is still a turd.
Shut up you stupid cunt.
Belief is the currency of delusion.
doubleplusgood warmfuzzy protection for all your digital lifestyles!
Ask me how the Heisenberg Principle may or may not have saved my life.
D R fucking M !
Digital restrictions management is digital restrictions management by any other name. And it sucks big time.
Digital Consumer Encumberment
Honestly, does the name change anything?
The names change, the problem stays the same.
Next task:
Redefine 'rape' as 'enthusiastic love-making.'
You can't talk about Wikipedia's flaws on Wikipedia
Will HBO release Pimps Up Ho's Down in HD?
The sky is green, water is dry. What else is new?
DRM = Digitally Restricted Media
DCE = Digitally Constrained Entertainment
A turd by any other name would still smell as foul... er, or something like that.
-S
--- What parts of "shall make no law", "shall not be infringed", and "shall not be violated" don't you understand?
it's just like 'Secure Digital', what is it securing? (against)
It will certainly enable many things, like enabling the consumers to bend over further, grabbing their ankles willingly, and preparing to get raped by the content producers.
Face it, their content isn't worth securing that badly.
'Digital Consumer Enablement would more efficiently confuse consumers "to prevent the use of content in ways they haven't before," such as enjoying TV shows time shifted to when they want and movies on portable video players like iPods where they can see them more than once. "I don't want to use the term DRM any longer," said Zitter, "even my Grandma knows by now that DRM is bad, so obviously we have to change the name of it."'
More Twoson than Cupertino
They used to call this Trusted Computing and a lot of other things. Consumers will soon figure out that it is the same stuff under a different name.
That's funny, I always thought it was Digital Revenue Maximization...
A bouquet of "fully organic fecal aroma enhancers". Don't worry - they're just like roses.
Weaselmancer
rediculous.
Earlier this week I got to have fun with a game I legally purchased -twice- despite being unable to find my CD. After downloading the iso and using Daemon Tools, I was 'Enabled' to play my game again! Yes sir, I was certainly using my content in ways I hadn't used it before!
You are reading a copy of my copyrighted post.
Perhaps he could give me a single concrete example of something that I can do with 'enabled' media that I could not do with the same media with the DRM/DCE removed.
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... as Windows Genuine Advantage.
Put a positive spin on the name and you can fool anyone!
"Digital Consumer Enablement would more accurately describe technology that allows consumers "to use content in ways they haven't before," In other news HBO announced new functionality for DRMed CDs- as a fancy coaster. No longer will people be restricted to AOL disks to support their drinks.
Sigs are too short to say anything truly profound so read the above post instead.
How about:
* BTB? For Big Titted Blonde? Because everyone loves a BTB!
* CFC? For Choco-Flavored Content? And it doesn't even cause cavities!
* WPGWTM? World Peace, Good Will Towards Man? Doesn't everyone want this? Wouldn't everyone give up one of three wishes for this? And let's face it, it makes it so easy to tie into the Xmas Buying Season!
Bob, one thing is true, even in your ivory tower: you can't polish a turd. How about just calling it "unprotected"? Seems to solve a lot more issues than this stupidity.
I can't agree more!
I no longer want anyone to call it 'copyright violation', but instead lets call it 'early retirement to the public domain'
War is peace.
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His idea is very powerful and also enhances the growth of plants.
[Insert pithy quote here]
Just because "baking brownies" is a euphemism for "taking a shit" doesn't mean it's going to smell any better.
The consumer has exactly no rights that are no extended by content provider. DRM was actually a more neutral term, since it doesn't assert that some rights do not intrinsically belong to the customer.
Semblance of Normalcy.
Axis.
Extraordinary Rendition.
Wetwork.
Collateral.
Hearts and Minds.
Regime Change.
Digital Consumer Enabledment.
I'm tired of this SHIT.
Wake me up when they're ready to actually SELL me a record or a movie. I don't want no 'license' to listen/watch something or any shit of the sort. I want to OWN a COPY. Copyright says I can't redistribute copies. Fine. But I want MINE to be MY OWN, and do with it whatever the fuck I want.
They can't have their cake and eat it too... and if they can.. well, they shouldn't.
"Luck is my middle name," said Rincewind, indistinctly. "Mind you, my first name is Bad." -- Terry Pratchett
He's sadly correct that successfull deployment of DRM is only a good marketting campaign away.
He must be a marketing weasel, any sane rational moderately intelligent person would know all that renaming would do is cause temporary confusion followed by massive backlash for the perceived attempt at obfuscation and just plain outright lying.
Then again, maybe he's a used car salesman...
You can't make shit not stink by simply changing its name.
Digital Consumer Enfeeblement
!#@%*)anks for hanging up the phone, dear.
Dude, how can you misspell P2P like that? You on meth or a Dvorak keyboard?
What do you think we're doing if not enjoying content in ways we haven't before?
That's the whole part of DRM that is the problem: it limits what we can do with the content.
It doesn't enable anything since the only effect it has on consumers it telling them what they can't do.
No where have I ever heard someone say: "Oh cool, the DRM made it easier for me to watch something!"
The whole restriction based technology is at odds with the fundamental power of the internet since the smart people online outnumber the paid people at the RIAA and MPAA by a pretty large factor. And as soon as you try and restrict something that people want, you are doing the exact opposite of what consumer demand and basic economics are trying to do. Give the people something that they want and you will sell your product, give them something that they can't use how they want and they will hate you and get it somewhere else and you won't see a dime!
Knock this DRM crap off before you regret it!
Changing the name does nothing but let us know how dumb you think we are. We know what results DRM has had on our lives and we have associated that acronym to difficult pain in the ass BS that keeps things we paid for from being enjoyed.
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) It'd be interesting to see how many humans would survive to serve us.
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My counter-headline: "Call It Whatever, but Stop Doing It. It's Pointless"
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"You can polish a turd, but it's still gonna be a turd."
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There is no such thing as a movie pirate -- there are only copyright protection enablers! Without this "piracy," the industry would never have been successful in acquiring tools like the DMCA, which in turn make DRM legally defensible, which must be a good thing, because it enables consumer choice! If DRM is good for the consumer, then piracy is good for the industry! Also, I am pleased to announce that henceforth up shall be referred to as down.
Those people will never get it. The name doesn't matter. What's so sinister about "Digital Rights Management"? It sounds pretty nice to me. The bad connotations aren't coming from the name, it's the essence of what DRM is.
People keep thinking that the order and choice of letters is all it takes to turn something bad into something great.
This has been happening also in the way people have called people with mental handicaps throughout the years, and the constant "reinvention" of the terms, to keep the names less insulting:
-----
Socially responsible guy: We shouldn't call them "idiots" anymore. That's insulting. We'll call it people with mental retardation: retards.
General public: Yea, that is a nice neutral name, no bad connotations.
One year later:
General public: My brother is a damn retard, I hate him.
Socially responsible guy: That's insulting. We shouldn't call them retards anymore. We'll call them people with "slow mental development". Slow people.
General public: Yea, that's neutral and nice. Cool.
One year later:
General public: My neighbour is "slow" or something. Huhuhu.
Socially responsible guy: We shouldn't call them "slow", that's insulting. Well call them "people with special education needs". Special people.
One year later:
General public: My new coworker is "special". Huhuu, get it? "Special". Hehehe.
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Basically you can change a name any times you want. Bad fame will come to haunt you never mind how hard you try.
...Draconian Content Exclusion.
(Let us not beat about the bush here)
Ripping an new rectum in the fabric of spacetime.
The technology is a Fair Use Circumvention Kit, consisting of equal parts technology, marketing, and industry-written legislation.
The term Fair Use Circumvention Kit is not only much more descriptive of the true nature of the beast, the acronym is also easy to remember, catchy, and equally descriptive.
When you can go all the way to EMPOWERING with the same acronym. "HBO: Making things harder, to make you stronger. Now with TWICE the Empowerment!
If brevity is the soul of wit, then how does one explain Twitter?
... when trying to force an undesirable act/product upon the people:
1. give it a friendly name
2. rename as necessary to avoid negative stigma
3. select friendly name that implies exact opposite of intended effect
4. advertise, advertise, advertise
5. co-opt media owners to stop using previous name(s).
6. remove all other consumer options
7. profit!
These opinions guaranteed or your money back.
Slurm Queen: As for you, you will be submerged in Royal Slurm which, in a matter of minutes, will transform you into a Slurm Queen like myself.
Small Glurmo #1: But, Your Highness, she's a commoner. Her Slurm will taste foul.
Slurm Queen: Yes! Which is why we'll market it as New Slurm. Then, when everyone hates it, we'll bring back Slurm Classic, and make billions!
(thanks to The Neutral Planet)
The creator of this post (Jacob Smith) hereby releases it, and all of his other posts, into the public domain.
The true reason DRM has failed is because of how limited our rights have become. Companies need to get a clue and instead of developing new "fluffy" terms to cover up shortcomings, they need to give the consumer what they actually want. Companies need to stop thinking about how to exploit consumers at every possible corner and go back to providing a valuable service for all.
Well, back to rejecting software patent applications.
Digital Consumer Enablement embiggens us all!
There are many things enabled media can do that un-enabled media won't. For instance, enabled media will confuse, distort, and detroy your old drivers, software, and hardware, while non-enabled media will play on everything easily. Talk about boring! Plus, Enabled media entertains pirates by giving them something else to do in their free time. It's a friendly game that the media companies play. And don't forget all the money that Lawyers and Security Consultants make off the Enabled content!
You are reading a copy of my copyrighted post.
Digital Stick Your Fair Use Rights Where The Sun Don't Shine Management.
Yeah I would rip that song from the CD to my ipod but the herpes kept me from doing it.
Yeah I would post that clip from Colbert on Youtube but... you know... the herpes...
That'd be awesome!
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
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Meltdown? We prefer to think of it an an Unrequested Fission Surplus.
--C.M. Burns
Errrr, given that DRM stands for "Digital Restrictions Management", isn't talking about "DRM restrictions" redundant?
Don't piss off The Angry Economist
...George Carlin got a massive headache the same time this HBO exec thought this up.
I'm going to ignore whatever thoughtful debate might be had on this, and simply quip: I've decided that we really should change the term for "PR". As it stands now, "PR" is a term people associate with messages coming from corporate executives which are carefully crafted spin statements intended to maximize corporate profit, often by misleading people and/or de-emphasizing the actual costs of a given initiative. Instead, we should use the term "thinking out loud"... MUCH friendlier.
- First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then ???, then profit.
Let's rename "copyright infringement" to "keeping Holywood honest."
No, I will not work for your startup
... welcome the king of stupid idea overlord
Sorry, this one just had to get out. Sometimes, people are stupid, but this time, this guy is the KING.
No sig for now.
You can put the lipstick on, but it's still a pig.
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet...
A steaming pile of shit by any other name would still smell like shit.
Tactics like this make me sick. Every college student working on Marketing degrees should be rounded up and put to work on a farm. At least shoveling shit there would be of benefit to humanity.
It reminds me of Ronald Reagan and the 1980's -- when the U.S. deployed a new generations of MIRVed nuclear missiles, Reagan named it "The Peacekeeper Missile". Speaking of the '80s, it also reminds me of 1984...
"I don't want to use the term DRM any longer," said Zitter, who added that content-protection technology could enable various new applications for cable operators.'"
:-/
While at the same time it would disable various old rights for consumers.
Typical corporate thinking: "How can we manipulate consumers into suckers that accept everything we tell them? Hmmm...let's change the name and spin some crap to make it sound awesome!"
The sad thing is, sometimes, this actually works.
--- "To pee or not to pee, that is the question." ---
They should call it "Free Beer". Then they could sell the identical version called "DRM" to the people who don't like that.
Hollywood hates us. It treats us like animals. And the millions of us who obsessively consume its poison prove them right. But without DRM, the minority of us who could prove them wrong could capture the masses our own ways, and have a chance to evolve the whole beast. I'd drink to that.
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make install -not war
Or make up any other term he cares to, he's not going to fool anyone.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
Sounds like that HBO exec needs some DRM, Digital Rectal Massage, buy a couple guys with baseball bats who thinks he sure has a pretty mouth.
"You'll get nothing, and you'll like it!"
Then at least he'll have the people who will smash this into little bitty smoking pieces feeling a bit conflicted.
Unless they're clowns, in which case it'll just encourage them.
I personally thought the problem with DRM was that it's impossible to implement, and here all along it was just the wrong name. Silly me.
Nostalgia's not what it used to be.
It's an internal colon massage! Now bend over...
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
All jokes aside, I think a large part of why they are doing this is because "DRM" has a negative image in the public eye (rightly so, but I digress). By changing to DCE they can say "oh we don't use DRM anymore, it was bad, we have DCE. It "enables" you...". Total PR crap.
That was all it was??? See, I knew it was something easy. What's in a name, eh?
Because however much money you paid to some PR firm to come up with that POS term to sell your digital lock-in schemes bullshit to the unwashed masses was too much. No one is gonna be fooled by this.
2) Change the name of roses to see if it affects the aroma.
"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much." - Oscar Wilde
I'm sure Digital Consumer Enabled content was available on piratebay.org
Oh, what's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet
F*ck the name, you can call it every way you want, I still don't want any of it.
I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I can think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.
That would be the meddlesome laws of physics right?
Digital Consumer Enablement, you say? That would turn DRM into DCE.
Now, we've played this alphabet-soup game plenty of times before, and it's interesting to note that a name-change like this comes about just as "Digital Restrictions Management" is starting to overshadow the industry-approved term in the minds of the public.
Therefore, I hereby propose that from this day forward DCE shall be known to stand for Digitally Crippled Entertainment.
Mr. Zitter, we can play this game for as long as you like. And our side will always win.
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He is trying to make a point, but he's making it badly. He's trying to claim that there are people out there who are only producing entertainment because it's copy-protected. Which is obviously bullshit, since CDs have no copy protection, and in the libdecss days, anybody can rip a movie they purchased and store a copy on their hard drive. This state of affairs has not reduced the amount of entertainment for sale. His point -- that Digital Restrictions Management might allow for more entertainment -- is not obviously incorrect.
Calling it Digital Content Enabling is a poor way to make his point, because it implies that people would accept a different name for DRM. He thinks that renaming it to reflect the effect HE HAS NOT PROVEN will help people accept DRM.
Don't piss off The Angry Economist
This bozo, though appearing as the true moron he is here in our informed corner of the world, actually has an idea that makes sense to the various and sundry marketing droids that listen to his CRAP! The general public and consumer at large will go on accepting it up the wazoo because they don't know any better and the name change will act like lube for the DRM insertion into their rectum. No, I'm sure a name change won't cure all ills or be as successful as this A$$ thinks it will be however, it will fool a higher percentage of the general populace than we would like to believe.
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... Magic Moonbeams
DRM did not merely happen upon it's bad reputation by the luck of the draw. It wasn't some mistake of nomenclature, some mere happenstance of naming convention. DRM started out as just another unknown acronym and it got to where it is today by one means and one means only: hard work.
It is just plain insulting to imply that DRM got where it is today by winning some kind of naming lottery. Don't replace DRM - it deserves the reputation it has, and deep down no one can ever take that away.
The Southern Baptist Convention has creationism. On Slashdot, we have porn.
And apples are so much like Tang ...
Murder - Overpopulation Alleviation
Eugenics - Life Quality Control/Assurance
Theft - Finanical Assets Improvment
Terrorism - Interactive Policy Design
Extortion - Modern Finanical Policy (actually he already probably uses this in his office!)
This is a suit doing the same eupheismology as when the negatively laden "downsizing" (which was still better than "decimating" I guess) was turned into "rightsizing". These days the negatively laden "offshoring" has also been substituted by "rightshoring".
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So they need to come up with a term that starts with "right". "Rightlocking" sounds about right since you're locked to the industry's restrictions.
So: "Rightlocking". Remember, you read it first on
The point of DRM is to restrict the user.
Renaming it to signify the opposite is only marketing.
Enablement?
Taking away consumers fair use rights, and the abilities to copy data is now 'enablement'?
Okay, I can see where they're going with this. It opens up a whole new way of looking at things.
Perhaps those guys in Guantanamo bay were being introduced to cellroom-based liberation therapy, where they are given brand new rights to stay in tiny windowless cubicles behind bars in Cuba, unlike the rest of us, who have to be kept out of there with fences and machine gun nests and minefields. And those Abu Graib so-called "torture victims" were in actual fact being given the benefit of the government's pain-tolerance management entitlement scheme. And at Virginia Tech recently, we had a private citizen taking it upon himself to offer the staff and students a free program of ballistics-based physiological refurbishment.
I think the people behind this 'Digital Consumer Enablement' idea should use it as the basis for a self-administered proctological insertment opportunity.
The company already has HD movies on demand ready to go, but is delaying them because of ownership concerns.
Search any p2p network, torrent site, usenet or whatever for "720p" "1080i" "1080p" "blu-ray" "hd-dvd" and you'll see the supply is already there. What ownership issues? The fear that those who want to can make unencumbered HD copies? Sorry, it's leaking everywhere from US HDTV broadcasts, UK HDTV broadcasts, Japanese HDTV broadcasts, Chinese film transfers, HD-DVD discs, Blu-Ray discs, in fact pretty much everywhere there's HD. If you want them, they're there. If you're not already "consumer enabled" it's because you for moral or legal reasons have abstained.
So to sum it up:
No DRM - you're enabled
"Current" DRM - you're disabled because the DRM isn't strong enough
"Future" DRM - you're disabled because the DRM doesn't exist yet
How exactly is DRM a consumer enabler again?
DRM doesn't *enable* anything, and no matter what they call it, enough average Joes have been burnt enough by it to know better now.
I run: Windows, OS X, Linux, FreeBSD. Just because you have a hammer, doesn't mean everything is a nail.
I also don't want to use "DRM" any more.
I suspect he and I disagree on ways and means, though.
Reality has a conservative bias: it conserves mass, energy, momentum...
It's not that it cripples the product at all, it's the NAME ...
And HBO's Chief Technology Officer will henceforth be known as Have Bullshit Opinions' Chief Tool Obviously
Nice that you can get paid for this kinda thing, less strain on the unemployment coffers :)
I have spoken'eth.
If World War II was occurring now in the 21st Century, perhaps Hitler would have said:
Nazi concentration camps had a bad name. We should now refer to them as "Jewish Opportunity Estates".
To hell with 'em. If one does not consume their products - in any form, what are they gonna do?
Its not like food, water, shelter or energy. Their 'product' is 'entertainment' - while such can provide enjoyment, what they produce is not needed.
So screw 'em. If you walk away and ignore them and others join you, eventually all they will be talking to is themselves.
If they want more laws, give them to them, so long as the lawmakers, the enforcers, and the people who are the direct beneficaries are the 1st to be investigated and charged if found in violation.
The reason we have DRM is that the media companies don't think that their interests are aligned with those of the consumer. The hell of it is that most of the time, there's no conflict. If HBO makes DRM-free video available on-demand, most of their existing customers would use it just about how you'd expect. They'd occasionally pay whatever nominal fee, and watch that episode of the Sopranos that they missed last week, and everybody will be happy. HBO gets another revenue stream, and the customers get improved ease-of-use.
On the other hand, you know that *somebody* will set up their PC with a cablecard (or whatever) and just start downloading everything they can get and then uploading it to the internet where non-subscribers can get it for free.
HBO is understandably worried that if their most popular content is available for free, some customers will stop paying for it. Based on prior experience with people "pirating" cable, I can't say that they're wrong. People used to regularly break into our cable company's distribution boxes and strip off the notch filters back in the days of analog cable, and there's a brisk business out there on the internet for devices to help people to cheat cable & satellite TV channel restrictions.
I'd like to believe that DRM-free media will eventually win out, because it's so much more convenient for everybody involved, from the producers, to the consumer electronics industry, to the end-user. Unfortunately, there's some anecdotal evidence from the recent experiences of the music industry that the existence of DRM-free digital coipies of content just leads to rampant copying, and that does have some negative effect on sales. The music industry went digital without an effective DRM system in place, and now they're stuck with it - you can't stop making CDs, or nobody would buy your music.
That's a "mistake" video companies are eager not to repeat.
...just like there was nothing wrong with the Khmer Rouge...they just had a bad name. Change the name and they're now smiling teddy bears!... That's the ticket!
Who is this fool trying to kid, himself or us?
ZDNet's David Berlind already uses the acronym C.R.A.P. (for Content, Restriction, Annulment, and Protection)
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I have the perfect response for that. I just have to go drop off some friends at the pool first.
Calling DRM "Digital Consumer Enablement" is the same as calling the rape and assault of a woman "Automatic soul-mate bonding".
...it's "affirmative action"... errr uhmmm "equal opportunity hiring".
I'm not repeating myself
I'm an X window user; I'm an ex-Windows user
He wants "digital consumer enablement"? We already have it, in today's P2P. Enjoy what you want, when you want it, in basically any format out there. Let's take over the name before he gets a chance to give it a foothold. DCE doesn't have nearly the negative connotation that "piracy" does.
Digital consumer enablement exists. It's called municipal broadband. Why HBO's boss thinks it's a good idea is an open question.
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Digital Consumer Entrapment
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You can dress up a pig, but it's still a pig?
As I recall it, every technology named DCE has gone slowly down in flames, taking a number of companies with it. But please proceed--maybe you'll be the exception...
"Not an actor, but he plays one on TV."
This seems similar to the phase "Work will set you free" being posted on signs in nazi concentration camps.
Run and catch, run and catch, the lamb is caught in the blackberry patch.
Really, should the technically saavy even worry about this stuff? It seems to me that simple economics are going to decide the winner here, and I am guessing that "free" is strongly in the lead to be that winner.
I asked my friend the other day if he was familiar with DRM. As you may guess, he was completely unaware of this term or any of the technologies involved.
Most people are unaware of these copy protection mechanisms. Once they become aware, either via education from friends or via restrictions of use then the dull roar of the techs will rise to the full gale of the consumers.
Still, don't take this as an excuse NOT to donate to the EFF: laws are harder to manipulate than corporate economic models.
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is still C.R.A.P.
Zune... still crap!
Engineering is the art of compromise.
They're not fooling anyone.
Eternity: will that be smoking, or non-smoking? I Corinthians 6:9-10
start 'em young
Engineering is the art of compromise.
doesn't make it smell any sweeter.
"I don't want to use the term DRM any longer" Whew! Problem solved! Its this kind of decisive action from our corporate leaders that demonstrates just how much they earn every penny of their salary!
P2P = Distribution Enablement
Piracy = Content Liberation
Only terrorists are against freedom.
The HBO Exec should have renamed it "Fuzzy Bunny Enablement". It's cute and warm and cuddly, and if you're against cute fuzzy bunnies, you must be a terrorist!
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
Stop. Calling. Me. A. Fucking. CONSUMER!!!
This makes me really happy I ditched my cable TV earlier this year.
"Oh boy! Are we going to try something dangerous?"
It makes perfect sense. It should have a consistent name with that gadget in my car that prevents me from going above 120 km/h.
That's what it boils down to.
When I first said the letters in my head.. it immediately made me say/think decease. Cease and DCE *is* better I guess.. for them..
Well if they succeed in calling it DCE, I propose the backronym "Digital Consumer Extortion". He's saying HBO will hold back entertainment from people unless they let HBO take a proverbial baseball bat to their MythTV boxes, put rootkits on their PCs, cripple their DVD players, etc. Granted it's not really extortion, but if the game is to spin terms as much as humanly possible, we can play too. It's certainly closer to extortion than enablement.
I have a different name... Call it 'stupid'... "Hey I got my new dvd which has been encoded with stupid." "Oh, isn't that the nice new clever way to protect the very significant investment in technology by the media companies?" "Yep, or stupid for short." "Yeah, that's a much more clear and concise way to describe it." "DRM seemed much to vague. It also seemed like it was too difficult to crack." "Yeah, with stupid, it clearly describes both the reasoning and the encryption algorithm." "I'm glad - it's good for consumers, good for the media companies, clear all the way around."
I call it DFU. Denial of Fair Use. or Disney Fucks You.
whatever you call it, it's not in your interest. Don't accept their fuzzy Orwellian name.
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
This reminds me of about 15 years ago when Apple launched a marketing campaign at a trade show to get everyone to pronounce "SCSI" as "sexy" instead of "scuzzy"?
/OLD
Anyone else remember that?
Good times, man... good times...
that is not poison you are drinking. It is a life management utility.
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I have a different name...
Call it 'stupid'...
"Hey I got my new dvd which has been encoded with stupid."
"Oh, isn't that the nice new clever way to protect the very significant investment in technology by the media companies?"
"Yep, or stupid for short."
"Yeah, that's a much more clear and concise way to describe it."
"DRM seemed much to vague. It also seemed like it was too difficult to crack."
"Yeah, with stupid, it clearly describes both the reasoning and the encryption algorithm."
"I'm glad - it's good for consumers, good for the media companies, clear all the way around."
...is not the violent forcing of sex on another person, it's the terminology. Henceforth we will refer to rape as involuntary sex.
Eds totally dropped the ball. This is a piece on doublespeak. Doublespeak originates with the Defense Department.
Isn't the problem with DRM the fact that it is DRM? No one has found a use for these technologies except for the people that make them if I remember right.
Your television will not tell you when to start the revolution.
Instead of worrying about how criminally minded their customers are, perhaps they should be worried more about their OWN CEO who has been beating up on his girlfriends...
i -hbo10may10,1,2446921.story?coll=la-headlines-entn ews&ctrack=1&cset=true
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/tv/la-f
Perhaps CDS (CEO Defense Shield) is in order.
Why when I heard this I am suddenly reminded of the Newspeak in 1984? They can call it what ever they want to it does not change that it is bad for the consumer who just wants to view the video or listen to the music.
Oh my god, it has finally happened. Double-speak is here. My family left the Soviet Union to escape this sort of thing
just to find it creep into the US. I guess that saying is true about how there is a danger of becoming like those you
fight (or something to that effect).
Why stop there...
Murderer = Life Enabler
Huh? [devShell.org]
First off, all I can say is that the DefectiveByDesign campaign isn't changing its name to EnabledByDesign..
Reminds me of when NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance) was deemed a bad name for a machine that people went in because "nukular" must be bad, right? (actually in the case refers to nucleus, not radiation).
So, we now have MRI machines instead of NMR machines.
I have some suggestions for new names for DRM?
NCT - Nuclear Cancer Terrorism?
NSV - Nigerian Scam Validation?
WAR - War Atrocities Rights?
BCS - Birdflu content system?
IHG - ILoveYou.exe hello.jpg goatse?
BBHMM - B!tch better have my money
Digital Control Enforcement
Digital Content Estopple
Doughnut Cream Euphoria
Digital Content Enslavement
Digital Consumer Enslavement
Digital Consumer Extortion
Digital Crap Exposure
Digital Control Establishment
Digital Consumer Enema
Dumb Consumer Enslavement
Drowsing Consumer Enrolement
a rose by any other name still smells like shit.
when drug dealers have a problem selling their crappy product, they often will change the package and street name just to sell a "new" product. "what do you mean you havent heard of the purple monkey pubes cat piss og master kush triple stack?"
If I paid money for something, I should be able to do whatever I want to with it. I shouldn't have to jump through hoops to use something I own. I don't call Honda to "enable" me to drive my car after I buy it. If I buy something, I should already be "enabled".
It's a very dark ride.
HBO already has a 24-hour-a-day HD channel, which broadcasts movies, the Sopranos, etc. without DRM. I can record these directly to a HD tape deck or computer capture device if I wanted (and it would be legal fair use). So, does this mean that HBO has no ownership concerns over these movies, or over the Sopranos? I doubt it.
Torches of Freedom 2?
TV: the drug of the nation.
Democracy Now! - uncensored, anti-establishment news
Why not just call it double-plus-good video and be done with it?
His CEO could call punching women, "Pugilistic Female Empowerment - it empowers them to make the right decisions with regard to doing what I want." all he liked too.
Shame no one accepted that argument either.
DRM stands for Digital Restrictions Management, and that is exactly what it is.
it's surprise sex!
It's not electrocution, it's voltage surprise!
See, doesn't everything become magical and pleasant with just a little word adjustment? I hope a meteor falls into that HBO exec's house.
Oh, a lesson in history from Mr. I'm my own grandpa.
Was it just me, or did anyone else read this the same why I did? This should be modded as FUNNY! plug the Analog Hole! hehehehe
Customers recognize, consciously or subconsciously, that when they buy something, they are entitled to several things. This includes, but is not limited to:
The Christian Right is Neither (Christian nor right). See: Matthew 23, Matthew 25, Ezekiel 16:48-50
this might not go well with the people on slashdot, but DRM has been a way of getting companies to get video online. Things like netflix watch now which lets you watch netflix DVDs online or AOLs in2tv which has tons and tons of WB programming for free would not be around with out DRM. Its not unbreakable but it prevents the casual copying that they really fear. I can continue this with the list of american tv networks that broadcast full primetime shows in high quality online for free as soon as they air.
itunes store wouldnt be aroudn without DRM. Sure we are getting rid of it now, but it has gone a long way to changing the napster era mentatlity of expecting everything for free.
The war with islam is a war on the beast
The war on terror is a war for peace
inserting a very sharp and very long sword up their collective asses...just like they have been trying to do to us, their "customers", by forcing this DRM shit upon us.
So, I hereby proclaim that we should change the name from DRM (Digital Rights Management; Digital Restriction Management) to Digital Company Enablement to Control the Consumer (DCECC). That's really what it is.
And no, people have been doing that for years. Just differently. Before it was splicing VHS/Beta in different means. Then it was on computer and distributed via VHS or DVD. Now, they are just doing it all on computers which makes it easier to do. It's nothing new, and people will realize that.
Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away. - Elvis Presley (source: imdb.com)
Digital Rights Management, Digital Consumer Enablement, Content Protection, Content Encryption, whatever you want to call it the purpose is still the same: to restrict what an end user can do with said content. This guy should get smacked for trying to spin this! A synonym by any other name... I wonder if he has some special versions of the word pander to go along with DRM.
Easy New Improved Media Authentication: ENIMA
Righteous Check of Legality: RootCanaL
Or maybe something like
Fuzzy Kitten Cherry Blossom Sugar Plum Digital Consumer finger in the butt
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
YouTube and AtomFilms are better anyway...
Just wait a couple months until they cancel you for using the 'competition'.
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
Politicians has been using this trick forever. If a program or idea doesn't fly, they don't change the idea, they change the name or packaging. Just recently, how many names did the War On Terror go through? How fast did the "Nuclear Option" turn into the "Constitutional Option"?
I can't say I blame HBO, maybe resent them a bit. Politicians have used this trick and proven it works. It's just always frustrating to watch them point out to us how collectively stupid we really are to fall for it over and over again.
It's mine.
It is just a pig with lipstick...
the reason racism is not more widely accepted is the name. Instead, we should call it "ethnic self-empowerment."
Changing the name from Digital Rights Management to 'Digital Consumer Enablement' is like changing the term rape into 'surprise sex'. Either way, you're still getting fucked.
DRM = Digital Restrictions Management
or
DRD = Digital Rights Denial
or
STFCTTBA = Screw The F'ng Customers They're Thieving B*st*rds Anyway
I believe STFCTTBA best captures the spirit of the technology.
Welcome to your new world of DCE. The Ministry Of Truth had deemed copy protection to be your friend.
TT
"Nuclear Weapons" are now to be called "Dispute Resolution Accelerators".
Table-ized A.I.
(No, not really.)
Fair Use Control
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Might be a good new name. I can think of a few ways to end it, but I leave that to the collective imagination of
More Caffeine. NOW
Rename "shit" to "flowers" and it suddenly stops being shit! Wow, unbelievable.
The public aren't stopping because it's called "DRM". They're stopping because they don't like what it does to their user experience. It still will.
Geeks are stopping because it's called "DRM" but they're smart enought to know when you call it "PDQ" that they should dislike it just as much.
As with many things in life, it provides an opportunity to quote Lewis Carroll:
"... The name of the song is called 'Haddock's Eyes'."
"Oh, that's the name of the song, is it?" Alice said, trying to feel interested.
"No, you don't understand," the Knight said, looking a little vexed. "That's what the name is called. The name really is 'The Aged Aged Man'."
"Then I ought to have said 'That's what the song is called?'" Alice corrected herself.
"No, you oughtn't: that's quite another thing! The song is called 'Ways and Means': but that's only what it's called, you know!"
"Well, what is the song, then?" said Alice, who was by this time completely bewildered.
"I was coming to that," the Knight said. "The song really is 'A-sitting on a Gate': and the tune's my own invention."
(OK - I usually drag that one out to start a lesson on variables and pointers, but the DRM name change should model itself after this as well...)
"Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
Where if something isn't popular then they rename it. Like a diseae ridden two bit whore who decides to call herself by a beautiful name (can't think of any right now, I'm too irritated)and suddenly she's a "Erotic Entertainer" or some shit. And the sad thing is, at the end of the day when it's all said and done, it works. I guess a rose by any other name wouldn't smell as sweet. But only because we hear the name and don't expect it to.
Fine, then I propose we rename piracy to "Even More Digital Consumer Enablement"
The reason we have DRM is so the media cartels can create an artificial shortage and control the price. If the songs, movies, TV shows are readily available, you'll get more of a free-market pricing response ... which is exactly what the studios don't want.
... I refuse to roll over and be a "good little comsumer." I haven't purchased an audio CD in over 10 years. I haven't been downloading either. The commodity stuff is formulaic crap. I do, however, support indie musicians like Jonathan Coulton. He's earned some of my money without resorting to DRM or lawsuits. Imagine that. I'm also a firm believer that without the internet, Jonathan's music would have never gotten to me.
The entertainment industry's business model is fundamentally flawed. Up until recently, they've had a strangle-hold on production and distribution. That creates and artificial shortage, and allows them to dictate terms like price and availability. It used to be very difficult and very risky to go around them, and the cassette-tape pirates of long, long ago were small potatoes. Fast forward to today, and the entertainment industry is in the latter phases of the "adapt or perish" paradigm. Their control of the distribution channel gets less and less effective with each passing day. People have gotten a taste of freedom, and they like it. I don't care what new name they assign DRM
And finally, the entertainment industry isn't the center of the universe (in spite of what they've told you.) You can do without the latest DVD of American Whatever. Honest. It's not required. The entertainment industry has dictated the value-proposition of their goods (see the "artifical scarcity" argument above.) They're terrified that you'll actually make up your own mind, and realize that whatever they're peddling isn't worth it. That's one of the chief complaints about the iTunes pricing schedule - Joe Consumer can add (barely,) and the audio CD with 10 tracks selling for $18.99 at Best Buy is a lot more expensive than purchasing 10 tracks from iTunes. Additionally, the labels lose the opportunity to pad an album out to two discs by inserting filler or remastered tracks that you didn't want in the first place. Those last two are just pure profit for the labels, and that's where they're taking the biggest hits. Heard them whining about the death of the album format recently? It's not because they fancy the art form.
So that they are better accepted, maybe we should impose new taxes but call them "Community Upkeep Enablement."
He's obviously on some really good drugs! T
I take no responsibility for what I say. Even though I'm never wrong
This has me wondering: what is the world record for turning a neutral phrase into one with disastrously negative connotations? It hasn't been that many years since "DRM" was just a TLA to most people and now it's already sufficiently tainted that its proponents have started trying to replace it. (Of course, a clever entertainment industry leader would recognize that as a hint . . .) :-)
So, are there any other phrases that went through that same process with comparable speed? (And in order to retain some level of challenge to the exercise, let's leave WW2 out of it
sigs are hazardous to your health
... it's
"Extended fair use"
"Zero-cost distribution channels"
"Public entertainment enablement"
I'll use their euphemisms if they use mine.
My personal acronym for DRM (see sig) is pretty accurate, I think. If HBO or others change the acronym from DRM to "DCE," I propose we instead call it "Digital Copyright Enforcement." Or some other ominous label designed to combat their flowery language. Deliberately Crippled Entertainment is another possibility, though this couldn't be used when discussing restricted software. Any better suggestions?
DRM = Digitally Restricted Media. This is a viral sig, pass it on.
An old fellow is talking to his grand-daughter as he works in the garden, and he keeps talking about he manure he's spreading on the flowerbeds. The bothers the girl's mother and she asks her husband "I hope your father washes his hands before he comes in... and why can't he call it 'fertilizer' like polite folks"? He replies, "honey, it took us 30 years to get him to call it 'manure'".
Look, folks, you got people to quit calling it "Copy Protection" because people got tired of the smell. Now it seems like it smells just as bad when you call it "Digital Rights Management". Calling it empowered this or enabled that isn't going to make it smell any better.
Great! I'll help them get the word out.
Douches
Con
Everyone
Beautiful.
I got a fever...and the only cure is more cowbell!
Just when consumer awareness of DRM is starting to grow they will change the name. This puts us back to square one but doesn't change a thing for them.
The sad thing is that yes, people are that stupid and yes, this will work.
>>His implication is that they won't fund the production of entertainment without Digital Restrictions Management. As if they were going to go out of business otherwise!
Because in the centuries preceding "Right Management" artists and entertainers couldn't reach anyone, by HBO's reasoning.
Take the movie Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow: The main mover behind it was one man (Kerry Conran), who conceived, developed and convinced people to listen to his idea. He had a vision and a passion, combined them into a wonderful work. His ideas existed outside of any movie conglomerate.
Ultimately it is what we must realize, there will always be a demand for the arts and patrons for the arts.
By reading the discussion in here, it has become clear to me that there are other independent media that folks have come to favor. Others have pointed out that for certain others, even if the fee were miniscule, they would still not pay for it: I don't believe it. Every person will find some work they appreciate enough to pay a fee for.
The best patron is the general public, because it is not restrained, it can appreciate all styles and every artist will find representation with someone out there.
Who needs middle-men (that in many cases restrict what can be produced) when we have an unlimited means of communication?
There is no fight, the war is over.
Seek new ideas and cherish them.
I don't know the meaning of the word 'don't' - J
there u go...
That acronym doesn't spell anything, I don't see the humor in it.
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Actually, I know what NCLB is, For those missing the "funny" part, it is the same Acronym for No Child Left Behind, the often ridiculed program of the federal gov'mt under the leadership of GWB
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
* Highly Effective Restriction of Personal Entertainment Systems
* Had Ecstasy, Resigned to Pretty Excruciating Software
* Hamstrung Electronic Reuse Platform--Extra Stupid
* Half-assed Extra Rotten Playing Encryption Setup
* Helps Evil Recording People Eat Sushi
Ive never personally had or seen a sam adams, but this is what I always think of when I hear the name: http://www.metacafe.com/watch/90815/family_guy_sam uel_adams/
I have a better one: Digital Value-Added Paradigm Shifter for Consumer Empowerment to Purchase Content from Greedy Bast^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Fluffy Bunnies.
I guarantee you that consumers will line up to bend over with a big smile even without knowing what DVAPSCEPCFB is.
A genuine advantage to have Digital Consumer Enablement.
Do I have a second?
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
DCE == Douchebags Creating Euphemisms
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Shakespeare! Well, there seems to be this trend of going back to Shakespearian duel-type contests to decide things. So why don't we say "a rose by any other name smells as sweet"? Or DRM by any other name is still as stupid?
"All you need is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure." -- Mark Twain
or Digital Cash Extraction,
or Don't Copy Enything. (Ok, that one doesn't quite work.)
or perhaps Doomed Commercial Entertainment.
-- Alastair
This is just like the way the Windscale nuclear reactor was renamed Sellafield after it caught fire and released all that radioactive iodine into the environment, isn't it? And after all, that worked perfectly. Nobody remembers that Sellafield was Windscale, do they? Er...
Quidnam Latine loqui modo coepi?
Hey, it worked for Microsoft.
By reading this you acknowledge that you have read it.
so what he is saying, is people have learnt what the term DRM stands for, so to mislead and confuse them we will change the name? people like him are whats wrong with the world.
If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
By HBO's definition, if it looks like shit, smells like shit, and tastes like shit, it must be peanut butter.
ARTHUR:
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What happens now?
BEDEVERE:
Well, now, uh, Launcelot, Galahad, and I, uh, wait until nightfall, and then leap out of the rabbit, taking the French, uh, by surprise. Not only by surprise, but totally unarmed!
ARTHUR:
Who leaps out?
BEDEVERE:
U-- u-- uh, Launcelot, Galahad, and I, uh, leap out of the rabbit, uh, and uh...
ARTHUR:
Ohh.
BEDEVERE:
Oh. Um, l-- look, i-- i-- if we built this large wooden badger--
from (http://www.mwscomp.com/movies/grail/grail-08.htm
Down With Slashdot BETA!!! I've been around the corner and seen the oliphant; you can only abuse me from your perspecti
some poor slob fighting on his own turf against an invading army, who unfortunately doesn't wear the same sort of clothes the invaders have, and if he wanted to, would have to custom order them at one year's pay, because average wages where he lives run around 300 bucks a year.
definition of terrorist-anyone the invading army manages to kill, including 3 year old kids and old ladies, or 14 year olds they gang rape then burn
definition of insurgent-a local who for some odd reason doesn't like the idea of being invaded, and having his home smashed and farm run over by invader's tanks and hummvees
definition of "security contractor"- a disgusting mercenary who murders for a paycheck
No you arent. You are just another number, that pays taxes to keep the system going.
---- Booth was a patriot ----
I propose we change the name DRM to "Digital Consumer Deterrent". I know, personally, that DRM has prevented my purchase of a whole slew of not only content, but also associated hardware. If we're going to let them change the name, let's use one that's a bit more honest. :-)
Sean
How about, instead of wasting your time trying to protect your content from being copied, you spend a little time making sure that you have content to protect? You know, like not canceling all of your shows (Carnivale, Deadwood, Rome, Sopranos, etc). I've been a loyal HBO subscriber practically my whole life, but I'll be canceling in a few more weeks cause of short sighted management at HBO. I'm sure I'm not the only one and I'm also sure that some HBO bonehead like this guy will just blame the cancellations on piracy. HBO has done more to piss off it's customer base these past few years than any other network. This just seems like an effort to deflect peoples attention from their real problems.
Or, DCUP. This new acronym will surely appeal to slashdotters.
...like throwing it in the garbage when it doesn't work, or learning how to get rid of a rootkit!
Should now read: The MAFIAA *and Bob Zitter, HBO Executive,* will be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.
I've got a better name.
Disabled Consumer Entertainment or D.C.E.
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If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and sounds like a duck then you can be fairly certain that it's a duck. DRM is DRM. You're not going to fool anyone by changing it's name. Especially after the /. crowd finds out what you're trying to do.
Heard any good sigs lately?
Crap by any other name still smells just as bad...
Seriously how nieve are some of these execs? "People dont like it... I know, we'll just call it a different name..." Oh yeah, thats the ticket... Lets add more confusion to the customer base...
And this from a company who's CEO had to quit before he got fired days before the board meeting... Does this idiot really think misleading the public is a good idea especially at this time?
This guy probably calls prison 'government assisted living.' Sadly, marketing geniuses could probably get his idea to stick. It's up to all of us to call him out on this fraud.
... but if you put lipstick on a pig, you still have a pig.
...
The usual cautions about wrestling with pigs are still in force
It's Linux, damnit! Pay no attention to renaming attempts by self-aggrandizing blowhards.
No, the basic problem with DRM is the attempt to grab consumer's rights and grind them into a fine powder under the RIAA and MPAA's goose-stepping boot heels.
Fuck the DRM. Fuck the RIAA. Fuck the MPAA.
If they change their names, fuck that too.
If they want to stop lagging sales, why not try putting out stuff that DOESN'T SUCK.
And go back to the old-fashioned way of doing business....
EARN YOUR FUCKING MONEY!
I have already verified, most women will not buy this line.
Nor, "Let me check you for piles."
And "Oops! I missed" does not fly, either.
... and have always been at war with DCE. Long live our DRM allies.
As in ...
Digital Consumer Exclusion
Digital Content Explosion
Excuse me, but please get off my Pennisetum Clandestinum, eh!
... and more and more people are not going to buy it, because it stinks:
Just change its name (preferably to something very euphemistic) and be done with it?
you put on a pig, it's still a pig.
that's the question, in 10 times it fails atleast once on me; is that defective by design?
--- I am known for the ones who want to find me on the net. Is that a privacy risk or a privilege? One might wonder..
and I'll call it "Manufacturer's Sales Cost Reduction."
Evil is the money of root.
Because we all know that specifically enumerating to me what I can do with my content makes it easier for me to use it in cool ways, and that, if DRM wasn't there to prevent me from doing things with high-definition video, I'd never think to put it on my iPod.
I'm sure this guy makes more money in one year than I'll make in my life - and he's an idiot. Ask msft how well "WGA" worked.
So why do stupid people get all the premium jobs? Is there anybody here who think's s/he is dumber than the president of the USA?
its not a new tax, its a Temporary Refund Adjustment!
You're right, I was trying to say two things in one sentence. In case anybody else was confused:
Back in the early 80's the Music industry started the transition from Vinyl to CD without having an effective DRM system in place. At the time, and for at least a few years after the transition, the amount of data on a CD was substantially more than the average computer's hard drive capacity, and very few people had even heard of lossy audio compression formats (MP3 not having been invented yet). Using a then state-of-the-art 14.4Kbps modem, it'd take on the order of 4 days to transfer 1 CD between two computers. Once you got the data transferred, you'd be listening to it on a fairly low-quality sound card on your PC - and in fact, since you'd be limited on the playback side anyway, you might encode it as 8-bit mono samples, cutting the transfer time to "only" a single day.
The CD format was in nearly all ways noticeably superior to the existing analog formats - more durable, better sound, random access, etc, etc. Zillions of CD players were sold as a result, and the CD quickly became the dominant music distribution format. For many years, CD duplication equipment was relatively rare, and quite expensive.
By the mid-to-late 1990s, when MP3 encoder software and fast internet connections started to become more common at around the same time, there was an explosion of music piracy on a previously-unknown scale. There's a lot of debate on actual numbers, and what percentage of those downloads represented lost sales, but the sheer amount of copying going on these days is something that simply wasn't (couldn't have been) foreseen back in the days of dubbing at real-time or 2x speed between dual tape decks.
Unfortunately for the folks in the music industry, there's no obvious way to dig themselves out of the hole they've made. The CD format is "good enough" for the vast majority of consumers, so there's little they can do to entice people onto a new format. And forcing consumers onto a new format simply isn't going to work. Despite that SACD and DVD-Audio have higher sound quality and better features (and incidentally, DRM), consumers just aren't interested.
The DRM schemes that have been tried for CD-Audio content have been either trivially circumvented, or too annoying for users to put up with. I don't think anybody seriously thinks they can put the genie back in the bottle now. All of the DRM stuff for downloadable music is just an attempt to keep the situation from getting worse until they figure out what the "real" plan is.
consumer proposes hbo exec just fucks off.
Mmm, I think that changing the name doesn't affect the DRM equation : http://ploum.frimouvy.org/?145-do-i-have-to-protec t-my-content-with-drm-the-drm-equation
So we (they) can still use the result.
Ploum.net.
This Bitter Zob has finally found a way to end all mankind's problems by calling a cat a dog !
Face it buddy. DRM is now used almost as a swear word, because what it refers to is almost obscene.
If you change the name to something 'prettier' then you will simply sully the prettier name.
Oh, and DCE? Digital Consumer Entrapment.
(( I could say 'good luck buddy', but I really wouldn't mean it. ))
Free Software: Like love, it grows best when given away.
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet
HBO is the last hope for freedom in broadcasting in this country... but it appears at the end of the day, they're no different than the other DRM crooks
.. washes whiter than white; blabla .. new package same content ...
--- I am known for the ones who want to find me on the net. Is that a privacy risk or a privilege? One might wonder..
This is on par with the banks changing their ATM "Service Fees", to "Convenience Fees", and doubling them in the process. Yes, it's quite convenient to charge us more.
Love many, trust a few, do harm to none.
It's called Draconian Restrictions on Media. It is an illegal control on fair-use. Circumventing it is legal; the DMCA unconstitutional.
Draconian Restrictions on Media has a nice ring to it. Nice and clear about its purpose, which is to force people to buy multiple copies of the same bits. It does nothing to stop pirates, who will duplicate discs, copy-protection and all. All it does is annoy the people who have already bought the disc.
Because that's just what I need, another DCE acronym.
or maybe "a turd by any other name would smell as crappy."
"Proper use of terms" was on the cutting edge of Chinese philosophy 2200 years ago.
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FREEDOM FRIES!!
So say we all
Well, my guess is that the name change comes so people stop calling it "Digital Restriction Management".
Too bad, I already have a new nickname for their new paint on the shit. "Digital Consumer Enfeeblement". And it even "fits" better than the old one, too, from a purely rhythmic point of view.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
The word is "enable" is a verb in the English language. It really burns my ass when business types dream up grotesque terms like "enablement" to satify a scheme like DRM attempting to say it helps consumers. It should remain DRM because the most accurate expansion is "Digital Restrictions Management". DRM does not enable consumers in anyway. It only protects business interests.
Soon some exec will propose "Consumer Rights Application Process". I can't wait.
Who said this game can only be played by one? If they change the name, we'll just drag that name down to its real meaning, we'll invent new meanings for the acronym, we'll inform people.
Appearantly, as DRM has shown, that kinda works. At least to the point when they think that a new spin is in order. They'll pump money into it, they'll start hyping it, we'll destroy it again.
Unlike them, we don't have to live of hype, spin and (if those fail), outright lies.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
We have *always* been at war with East Asia....
IANAL but write like a drunk one.
Was doing dev work and the data model sucked ass. I was charged with gluing some functionality together despite the crappy design of the network table. I said "we should scrap the network table and rebuild it" to no avail.
Sure enough after I had done a couple tweaks it became "my" network table.
"There's a problem with your network table... "
Ick.
My turnips listen for the soft cry of your love
You forgot about piracy, er, I mean "Inexpensive content advertisement".
WYSIWIG, but what you see might not be what you need
It's about what THEY can do... i.e., they would not release the media unless DRM/DCE was enabled. No. They'd just keep the movies to themselves forever and never let anyone watch them, never making any money ever! Brilliant, yes?
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If something gets a bad rap because people figure out what it is, just rename it! Ask the army. They forever removed the stigma of shellshock by renaming it "battle fatigue", then "combat fatigue", then "war neurosis", then "posttraumatic stress disorder" ...
It certainly doesn't stop all copying, but the fact that the average consumer doesn't know, or care to know, how to circumvent DVD copy-protection means that it has the intended effect. The DMCA is an effective tool for preventing mass-sharing of pirated content.
Obviously from a technical perspective, a perfect DRM system isn't even possible. That's not the point. To be effective, the system just has to discourage wholesale copying of content by the average consumer. Dedicated pirates will always be able to circumvent the technical parts of the system.
I actually made an illegal copy of a legal copy; my friend has the game and I downloaded his ISO. What's most annoying is that the game was still installed on my computer, but I couldn't play it without the CD. It's as if I bought a car, lost the key, and then had to buy a whole new car because I couldn't find the key. Next you'll be telling me that getting duplicates of my car keys infringes the Manufacturer's copyright.
More good examples: "A year ago, I legally purchased the board game Monopoly. Yesterday I couldn't find the dice it comes with, so I borrowed two dice from a friend to play.". Or how about: "Last week, I brushed my new porche against the side of the tunnel, and it got scratched. The dealer wouldn't tell me where to get the paint to fix it, so I went online and found some paint that would work".
The way I see things, when I buy a video game, I buy a license to copy that game onto my computer and play it. Incidentally, that license comes with a copy of the game for convienience, as well as key(s) I may need. If I have the license and the keys, I am legally entitled to have a backup copy that I use. So what if I created the backup copy after I lost the original?
I buy games because it's the right thing to do, not because it's the legal thing to do. People often confuse the two. I even bought this particular game twice, because I lost the key once. I can't believe you expect me to buy it a third time- they already got my money twice.
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