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Open Standard DRM is an oxymoron

How can you have "open standards" for building locks on people's doors so they cannot use their own property? Should this be the "Closed Mobile Alliance" creating a "Closed Music Locking Administrator" (CLMA) dedicated to revoking your license of fair use of your own property?

This has been covered many times before. If the record industry was not selling you a physical product, then you would be able to exchange any record, 8-track tape, cassette tape, or CD for a new copy in the latest technology. That would be selling a license for the music. Instead they sold you the same music on each media, proving that they were selling a product, and the music was just an incentive. They cannot change the rules now.

And any DRM scheme for music CANNOT WORK. Somebody with a high-quality speakers and a microphone will just pass the signal through its analog phase known as sound and strip all DRM from it (if the DRM cannot be removed by purely digital methods.) There is absolutely no DRM that can prevent it. At some point, music must exist as sound or it is of no use to human beings. (Remember the 5 senses. We only have one input for music.)

Why are they even wasting effort on this? The distribution channels have changed. Musicians must find new business models to profit from their music. It is unlikely that the companies that profited from the old business model will survive. Let them take the money they "earned" from taking a large cut out of every piece of music that was distributed for the last century and go sit on a beach. Or let them try to help build the new business models. But building castle walls is no defense when everybody already has airplanes.

Posted by: solprovider   Posted on: 01/30/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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