Hi,
What about a warrant from say a FISA court? Who owns the server? Microsoft, UN, Google (the bad company, the corrupt organization, the good company
)? Or maybe the chinese government; this last option is the best since at least you know what you get
Whom would you trust with your personal listening/viewing/reading habits?
I personally trust no one, so I buy from Amazon but also from Abe, Half, Fictionwise, Borders, B@N, I pay with credit, PayPal, but with cash also when I can, and while I agree that anyone motivated and with enough resources could track whatever I do, why should they invest the resources? Have a central server, well... People with power (whether governments, businesses...) want to control, that is an empirical/historical fact, why make it easy for them?
I agree that there should be fair compensation to musicians, writers and so on, and that this will become trickier and trickier once our devices get better and better; I also agree that the lure of "free" is hard to resist, and right now music/books/movies digital models are simply not profitable enough, so they piggyback on the physical models, like the credit card users that pay their balances on time piggyback on the ones that pay those exorbitant interest rates, and that is most likely not sustainable in the long run. But the long run can be long.
Personally I hope that we will have many business models that are profitable, that they will be taylored to the specific content that is sold (in publishing for example I think that children books, college manuals and fiction have very different requirements in terms of display, timing, so you could imagine very different ways to sell them...), and that drm will become a four letter word.
Liviu
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Originally Posted by quux
- nobody else should ever be able to audit that central server to find out where and when I was using my content, or even what content I own.
- that 'central server' should actually be replicated to several locations, so that integrity of the database is preserved against disaster.
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