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DRM Will Be Gone By 2025, Predicts Cory Doctorow (theregister.co.uk)
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It's been two years since Cory Doctorow joined the EFF's campaign to eliminate DRM within 8 years -- and he still believes it'll happen. "Farmers and the Digital Right To Repair Coalition have done brilliantly and have a message which is extremely resonant with the political right as well as the political left." And now even the entertainment industry seems to oppose extending the DMCA to tractors. "The entertainment industry feels very proprietary towards laws that protect DRM. They really feel that they lobbied for and bought these laws in order to protect the business model they envisioned. For these latecomer upstarts to turn up and stretch and distort these laws out of proportion has really exposed one of the natural cracks in copyright altogether."
Doctorow also says that "If there's anything good that might come of Brexit, it's that the UK will renegotiate and reevaluate its relationship to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and other directives. The UK enjoys a really interesting market position if it wants to be the only nation in the region that makes, exports, and supports DRM-breaking tools."
Doctorow also says that "If there's anything good that might come of Brexit, it's that the UK will renegotiate and reevaluate its relationship to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and other directives. The UK enjoys a really interesting market position if it wants to be the only nation in the region that makes, exports, and supports DRM-breaking tools."
And proprietary software will be gone by 2030.
My first program:
Hell Segmentation fault
DRM gone? Not if the powers that be (...lobbying and bribing politicians) have anything to say about it.
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...because of the false sense of security.
There, fixed that for you.
If anything, leaving the EU will serve as a pretext to make our copyright laws even stricter, and DRM even more legally-supporter.
Why? Because very few voters care even the tiniest amount about copyright policy. It's just not an issue in elections, at all, not in the slightest, which means the only voice there to influence MPs comes from lobby groups who are happy to point out the economic success of the entertainment industry and hint at favorable media support and a bit of help with the fund-raising come next election season.
Only days ago we passed the Digital Economy Act which, among many other things, increased the criminal penalty for copyright infringement from two years to ten. A provision that went largely unnoticed, as most of the attention of even the technical press has been on ridiculing another section of the act introduces another entirely unworkable attempt to restrict access to pornography on the internet.
Obviously you will get very little good content if DRM goes away and artists begin to basically give away their creations.
Which is why there was very little good content before the first DRM was introduced in 1983?
Not imposing DRM is not the same as artists giving away their creations. Home taping did not kill the music industry. VCRs did not kill the movie industry.
Those walled gardens can only exist through DRM mechanisms. They were created specifically to make DRM more pervasive on the computing platform. Apple, for example, wants to be the only company that can authorize applications to run on iOS.
And ordinary users are willingly gravitating to walled gardens because of the increased security.
Increased security my ass. People don't give a shit about security. Ordinary users are fucking lazy, and are "willingly gravitating" towards anything that can do everything for them without lifting a finger.
Voice activated assistants and press-to-order buttons hanging on the wall are two prime examples of just how lazy people have become. Getting online to search and order a product manually is considered hard labor for the Siri generation.
...all modern videogames have just been rebranded "mmo" or "online or always online" it's still drm....
Stop playing them. Video games are luxuries, pure and simple. They are extremely elastic. Stop playing them, and game companies will stop abusing you.
Windows 10 basically wants to re-engineer the whole application environment so that people don't have access to their own files via encrypted file systems, etc.
Stop using Windows. It is also highly elastic. Locking yourself into Windows is a conscious choice, not a requirement. There isn't a single piece of software you can't replace, recreate, isolate, or live without.
Even those proprietary industrial control programs can either be replaced or isolated. There are always other ways, if you are sufficiently motivated. But the longer you allow yourself to be ass-raped by abusive companies, the more expensive and painful it will be to replace them. The easiest place to start is by running Free Software on your current operating system, then switching to a Free operating system once you're comfortable with the available software.
I made the switch in 1999 (after dabbling for a few years), and have never regretted it.
Increased security my ass. People don't give a shit about security. Ordinary users are fucking lazy, and are "willingly gravitating" towards anything that can do everything for them without lifting a finger.
Not true at all. They care about security to a reasonable degree. The problem is that A) security isn't their only or most pressing concern and B) most of them are not security experts nor should they be expected to be. Too many programmers write system that fail to assume that the computer will be utilized by someone who does not understand security and cannot reasonably be expected to understand it even if they wanted to.
My parents are delightful people who are smart and capable and they certainly aren't lazy. But expecting them to be well versed in the nuances of computer security is both naive and unrealistic. It has nothing to do with laziness but simply where their competencies lie and what time they have available. You would do a shit job at what they do for a living most likely. That doesn't mean you are lazy or stupid but merely that you have focused your energies elsewhere.
Furthermore there is NOTHING wrong with the expectation that the software you use be designed to be secure and to make your life simpler. If your software doesn't do that for users it will eventually be replaced by software that does and rightfully so.
Voice activated assistants and press-to-order buttons hanging on the wall are two prime examples of just how lazy people have become. Getting online to search and order a product manually is considered hard labor for the Siri generation.
That's akin to arguing that people are lazy for not wanting to drive to the store to do their shopping. Spending your time efficiently isn't sloth - it's just smart. Spending more time than absolutely required to do a task is idiotic and wasteful. Time is the most precious resource any of us have and wasting it bothering with navigating unnecessary websites out of some misplaced idea of what laziness is is foolish. Maybe you enjoy spending your time jumping through extra hurdles to order something. Personally I have better things to do with my time. I'd rather spend even that modest amount of time doing something that adds value to my life.
Individual farmers may be furious at John Deere here, but there's a massive difference between that and a lobby big enough to actually get Congress to take action and pass laws.
LOL!!!!!!!
Somebody doesn't know about the agricultural lobbies.
Give you a clue: why do you think we have corn ethanol in all of our gasoline?
Farmers are *very* powerful.
Do you have ESP?
I predict that if the UK were to do this, then all future villains in entertainment media produced outside the UK would have strong British accents. All of them.
Also, the UK is whole-heartedly chasing the power-mad 1%-er's dream of citizen repression just as hard as we are here in the US. So I don't think there's any chance at all that they would do this.
DRM's not going away. DRM is the sugar in the authoritarian's tea.
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People keep saying things like this, but believe it or not, the executives running these massively successful businesses are neither stupid nor ignorant
This is demonstrably not true. With just about every major, the industry has declared that it will be the death of them. Remember video tape players being like Jack the Ripper? That want even the first. Piano rolls were going to be the death, as has just about everything new since then.
The industries have demonstrably survived however, and things like videos proved wildly profitable.
So no, your claim is not correct. The executives have a proven track record of having no insight, simply wishing to protect the model as it is today.
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We may have a couple good points against DRM, but there have been good points against LOTS of things that are still in place. As long as the people with money and power want DRM and think* it helps, we'll have DRM.
* Note: it doesn't have to ACTUALLY help. All that matters is what the people on top think.
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is another's time management. If you view technology as interesting and exciting then spending hours managing security settings and learning which repositories are safe (and occasionally cleaning up when one goes rouge after it gets bought out by a spammer) isn't a big deal.
If, OTOH, your interests are in say, Law, then you probably spend your days pouring over legal briefs instead of computer code. Speaking of Law, I never hear lawyers say "The problem with my clients is they're _lazy_". And I seldom hear Doctors saying that either. Sure, my doc tells me to eat better and exercise more, but he also recognizes that that's hard to do and takes a significant commitment. It's only computer techs that have this utter disdain for everyone who's not a computer tech.
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