http://maisonbisson.com/blog/post/10066/copyright-war/ A bunch of stuff I would have emailed you about. Thu, 16 Oct 2008 01:13:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://maisonbisson.com/blog/post/10066/copyright-war/#comment-801 MaisonBisson.com » Blog Archive » DRM = Customer Lock-In Mon, 15 Aug 2005 12:51:10 +0000 /?p=10066#comment-801 [...] Donna Wentworth is now saying what I’ve been saying for over a year now. Digital Rights Management (DRM) isn’t about preventing copyright violations by ne’er-do-wells, it’s about eliminating legal me2me fair use and locking in customers. In Your PC == A Toaster, Wentworth quotes Don Marti saying: Isn’t it time to drop the polite fiction that MSFT and other incumbent IT and CE [CE = consumer electronics — Casey] vendors are only doing DRM because of big, bad Hollywood? …[Having] “Hollywood” clamoring for harsh DRM (based on technical facts from the IT industry) actually helps the current market leaders… [...] [...] Donna Wentworth is now saying what I’ve been saying for over a year now. Digital Rights Management (DRM) isn’t about preventing copyright violations by ne’er-do-wells, it’s about eliminating legal me2me fair use and locking in customers. In Your PC == A Toaster, Wentworth quotes Don Marti saying: Isn’t it time to drop the polite fiction that MSFT and other incumbent IT and CE [CE = consumer electronics — Casey] vendors are only doing DRM because of big, bad Hollywood? …[Having] “Hollywood” clamoring for harsh DRM (based on technical facts from the IT industry) actually helps the current market leaders… [...]

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