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DRM Take II — Digital Personal Property
Diabolus Advocatus writes "Ars Technica has an article on a new form of DRM being considered by the IEEE. It's called Digital Personal Property and although it removes some of the drawbacks of conventional DRM it introduces new drawbacks of its own. From the article: 'Digital personal property (DPP) is an attempt to make consumers treat digital media like physical objects. For instance, you might loan your car to a friend, a family member, or a neighbor. You might do so on many different occasions and for different lengths of time. But you are unlikely to leave the car out front of your house with the keys in it and a sign on it saying, "Take me!" If you did, you might never see the vehicle again. It's that ability to lose control over property that is central to the DPP system. DPP files are encrypted. They can be freely copied and distributed to anyone, but here's the trick: anyone who can view your content can also "steal" it irrevocably. The simple addition of a way to lose content instantly leads consumers to set up a "circle of trust" that can be as wide as they like but will not extend to total strangers on the Internet.'"
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You know me, the anonymous coward. I have been posting to Slashdot for years! Anyway, I just wanted to let you guys know that when I am included in your circle of trust, you can trust in me.
you mean DRM-? (DRM+ is a bit silly) Hmm ... never tried to copy a car before. After reading this, it should be as easy as copying an mp3. My mind is totally changed on DRM- ... or not.
This new development in the copyright arena is going to raise several important questions. Do we refer to this as "Dippy" or as "Da peepee"? Do we change the acronym to "Digital Pretend Property" or "Digital Property Penalties"? Will this technology never really take off, or will it only die after a multi-billion dollar campaign and several dozen slashdot debates? Only time will tell.
Ok, by now everybody hates DRM. So here is what they do, they change the name.
I don't know if they are stupid or smart, either way it will penalize only the legal buyers, as always.
Love many, trust a few, do harm to none.
And I thought my job was hard before? Now I have to keep the songs stocked! Every time someone downloads one it comes right off our shelves.
Damn, beat me to it.
Lets just hope the RIAA doesn't try to enforce IP with a 10^34 J laser. Frankly though, it would be consistent with their historical level of subtlety.
If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we shoot people for Apollo-related non-sequiturs?
And since the entire revolution will occur in the form of /. posts, the revolution will slide off "most viewed" in a few days and post-revolutionary Earth will look much the same as pre-revolutionary Earth, with just a few geeks giving each other knowing glances and whispering "dude, we made a DIFFERENCE that day!"
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if you can use a universal assembler to obtain any object you want, what motivation is there to do labor?
SOMEBODY is going to have to move the 5 ton golden statue of you off of the assembly pad and up the stairs. If you had thought about it ahead of time, you'd have assembled some robots first, but nooooooo
If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I bought a pair of binoculars.