The EFF chimes in on Sun's DRM scheme

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One more time, it's not just media!!!

Come on Joe, the fact is that systems get hacked all the time, millions of people have had their private information stolen recently. My being in control of my "content" (financial, health, personal, etc.) and letting me decide who may see what and when is very, very attractive.

Certainly you would not argue that business (non-entertainment) has a legitimate right to enforce rights on their "content". (Financial, legal, planning, etc.) If you add up all the non-entertainment business it would demonstrate that entertainment business is a tiny fraction of all business. Of course proprietary software would also benefit greatly from a secure DRM system built in the hardware.

(We have pretty much proven software DRM doesn't work, all software can be hacked. Very few people are going to try and muck about with a soldering iron.)

It would seem to me that your argument is that say 95% of businesses and 100% of users should go without DRM because a tiny segment gets to use it too. You would either like to condemn everyone's use, or you want to create a second class "business citizen" out of nothing more than a desire for one of life's purely luxury items.

You complain that there might come a time where we are charged for each view or listen to entertainment content. I don't see it happening, simply because the market won't bear it, but if it did so what? It is a LUXURY, nothing more and lots of luxury items have reoccurring costs. Hmmm, hitting Six Flags is a luxury and they charge every time I want to go in and ride the coaster, even though I paid to do it just last week.

If you decide that you are unwilling to be a buyer of this luxury item, that is your choice. If enough agree with you then it will change, if they don't, you are simply out voted in the market, end of story...

Posted by: No_Ax_to_Grind   Posted on: 08/25/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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