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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
This doesn't mean biometric DRM will never, ever happen... just that it hasn't been perfected yet (much like e-book DRM).
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It's already missed. No major company is seriously proposing it's use in consumer electronics anymore.
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My statement does not "assume that customers are criminals." It merely states the realities of the product market.
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It's the mindset involved. To be blunt: Customer's don't give a **** about your problems with criminals, they want the goods cheaply and without hassle. Jack the price up or make it a hassle, and you'll simply lose a lot of them - many to the darknets.
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That's nice. Unfortunately, there are a few people here and there in the world that cannot make the same claim.
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You made an absolute claim. It's not true. There have allways been shades of grey in this, and at the end of the day iTunes is showing that most people will pay to play. Alienating the vast majority to try and turn the final percentages into customers is not good business sense. More, there's every evidence that the best customers are also often users of the darknets, so they don't have far to go if you do drive them away.
Why does every online industry have to find this out the hard way?
And darn straight Shaggy. Simply because something is electronic doesn't mean the rights don't apply. I'd love to see someone (under UK law) try and argue that a contract concluded by email wasn't valid...