Comments on: Digital Rights Management and Logic http://www.yodaiken.com/2006/01/digital-rights-management-and-logic/ Systems software technology and business Fri, 22 Jul 2011 13:41:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Claude Gelinas http://www.yodaiken.com/2006/01/digital-rights-management-and-logic/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Claude Gelinas Sun, 17 Dec 2006 23:34:24 +0000 http://yodaiken.com/?p=28#comment-3 Digital rights management is the epitome of social hypocrisy and the sign of a decaying society which is largely incapable of truly embracing change. Adding DRM to consumer electronics is basically the pathway to "Orwellianize" anything humans use to communicate. In my many years as a technology expert, I have yet to see a single idea, product or thing that truly commands that the author be granted full protection for 17 years periods. Show me a flying car and I'll reconsider but for the time being, books that babble about anything, music that's just awful and movies that are worthless instantly benefit from the copyright protection... without any consideration for merit or value. With the DRM non-sense getting implemented in PCs, anyone "improperly" using these pieces of copyrighted crap risks being jailed after losing to vicious lawyers financed by established "entertainment" groups. You can fight DRM all you want, as long as the elected leaders don't smack down the big entertainment moguls, we're in trouble, unfortunately. With DRM, common-sense has "left the building". Digital rights management is the epitome of social hypocrisy and the sign of a decaying society which is largely incapable of truly embracing change.

Adding DRM to consumer electronics is basically the pathway to “Orwellianize” anything humans use to communicate.

In my many years as a technology expert, I have yet to see a single idea, product or thing that truly commands that the author be granted full protection for 17 years periods.

Show me a flying car and I’ll reconsider but for the time being, books that babble about anything, music that’s just awful and movies that are worthless instantly benefit from the copyright protection… without any consideration for merit or value.

With the DRM non-sense getting implemented in PCs, anyone “improperly” using these pieces of copyrighted crap risks being jailed after losing to vicious lawyers financed by established “entertainment” groups.

You can fight DRM all you want, as long as the elected leaders don’t smack down the big entertainment moguls, we’re in trouble, unfortunately.

With DRM, common-sense has “left the building”.

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