DRM

The Joys of DRM

July 30, 2009 21:32:41.152

Here's the world that the MPAA and RIAA would like us to live in:

"We reject the view," he writes in a letter to the top legal advisor at the Copyright Office, "that copyright owners and their licensees are required to provide consumers with perpetual access to creative works. No other product or service providers are held to such lofty standards. No one expects computers or other electronics devices to work properly in perpetuity, and there is no reason that any particular mode of distributing copyrighted works should be required to do so."

I guess he's never heard of books, CDs, LPs, tapes.....

Comments

Re: The Joys of DRM

[ Terry] July 31, 2009 8:00:24.773

Comment by Terry

Seems to me that if they want a short life on DRM then their copyright should be equally as short.

Requiring copyright owners to provide perpetual access?

[James T. Savidge] July 31, 2009 15:39:13.447

Ummmm .... A book? Sheet Music?

Still A Way To Go

[W^L+] August 1, 2009 3:51:27.452

For a while, it seemed like they were starting to get some common sense. I guess not yet.

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