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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
*cough* confirmation bias *cough*
• Buyers of content do not receive unlimited rights to reproduce and distribute content, unless the creator / publisher / rights holder consciously grants that option.
• DRM, while not 100% effective, works well enough in several instances to keep most users honest. This allows the content creators / publishers / rights holders to receive payment for their work.
Seems pretty simple to me. |
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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
Oh yeah, I forgot to reiterate none of their actions are removing any books from the public domain, and as such are completely acceptable.
It is 100% acceptable to use content that is in public domain for commercial purposes. You want to make a movie? Write an opera? Charge $15 admission for the movie you made, or $750 for admission to said opera? Totally legit. Yes, that absolutely includes modifying the content and adding DRM, if you so choose.
"Public domain" is a set of laws regulating content, and that's about it. Any sort of "cultural conscience" is of your own invention and, as such, is (to put it mildly) non-binding. |
I love it, all your reactions to culture are business like, you talk of 'non-binding' and 'charges' and 'commercial purposes'. This is
our culture, it shouldn't be locked up by companies for no good reason. It shouldn't be artificially restricted, whether there are a million other vendors or locations where you can access the same culture or not. You defend DRM as though it actually works, as though it has ever worked, as though there is any evidence at all out there that supports its use. DRM has never worked, it doesn't keep people 'honest', which is as ludicrous as any statement I've ever heard in any of these debates. It keeps the 'honest' away from their own content. It does nothing to stop those who would take the content without payment. Never has done what it promised, never will do. That was true in the days of the Spectrum 48k and tape-to-tape, it's true now with any file that has DRM applied.
The
only people DRM works for are the technology unsavvy, who have no clue what it is, or how it works, but are willing to accept anything for the semblance of security (here's a rock, it keeps away tigers). As a much more intelligent programmer friend of mine put it "DRM is for the cryptographically sub-normal".