EU Encouraging Standardized DRM, Licensing

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "The European Commission is trying to encourage a standard licensing and DRM scheme for all of Europe, as well as 'cooperation procedures' and 'codes of conduct' for ISPs, copyright holders, and customers. No legislation has been proposed yet, but the 'cooperation procedures' sound like a push for an EU version of the DMCA Takedown Notices, which are already routinely sent to people outside the US. While simplified licensing might be nice, it's interesting that they don't appear to understand the inherent tension between standardization, interoperability and DRM — break once, copy everywhere."

Comments

a better idea

[theheadlessrabbit]

I have a proposal for an alternative to DRM.

Imagine what would happen if instead of locking content, media companies just made content that no one in their right mind would possibly want.

imagine if all new movies were either endless strings of sequels, or remakes of other movies you've already seen.
imagine if all music was watered-down over-produced generic crap.
imagine if the most popular video game system were to offer downloads of all their classic titles at great prices.
imagine if the dominant operating system was so buggy, incompatible, and slow, that no one wanted to use it.

if, in some parallel universe, those four things were to somehow able to happen, all at the same time, no one would pirate anything!

sadly, we may never see such a world...

Re:Hm...

[somersault]

You are a moron. If someone can listen to it, then they can also place a microphone next to it and record it. Sure the quality will be slightly degraded, but if it's done in a soundproof room in the middle of the countryside then it will be pretty decent quality. It's called the analog hole. I'm not a cracker so I'm not sure about the hardware side of things, but it's funny how modchip makers and crackers keep being able to crack supposedly uncrackable hardware too, huh? You don't know what you're talking about with your 'tamper-proof' hardware, unless you're talking about rigging every unit with C4. I can just see it now "WARRANTY VOID IF SEAL BROKEN (oh and your living room may end up rather void too)"