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Inside the AP's Plan To Security-Wrap Its News Content
suraj.sun writes with an excerpt from this story at Ars Technica that the "Associated Press, reeling from the newspaper apocalypse, has a new plan to 'wrap' and 'protect' its content though a 'digital permissions framework.' The Associated Press last week rolled out its brave new plan to 'apply protective format to news.' The AP's news registry will 'tag and track all AP content online to assure compliance with terms of use,' and it will provide a 'platform for protect, point, and pay.' That's a lot of 'p'-prefaced jargon, but it boils down to a sort of DRM for news — 'enforcement,' in AP-speak."
The quote is "... manage and control digital use of their content, by providing detailed metrics on content consumption, payment services and enforcement support.", which is Digital Rights Management (DRM).
The word "enforcement" is in the quote, so how has this "zilch to do with enforcement"?
When will money-hungry people get a clue and realise more protection wont save your content from being copied. You dont lose money if your content is copied, as most people will still pay if they feel its worth the price for they want original quality content. Its not like we're stealing a car, because the content is still yours. You cant complain about losing viewers either, as if your content was good enough in the first place, people would stay with you, and your extra protection schemes just make a lot of people go to other sources for equivalent free content.
Information is meant to be free, if you think money is incentive for creating it, then what about the entire open source community and millions of free webpages? Why do these companies need big marketing and protection to get their content through, cant they let the product speak on its own?
The more control you try to get, and the less you end up with. I bet this new security wrapper will be hacked in minutes.
Do you D?
WTF is a microformat? You guys making up words to describe something that already exists and we have been using for years. (Like embedding small snippets of html)