DRM - why play their game?

DRM - why play their game?

Posted Aug 2, 2005 3:01 UTC (Tue) by leews (guest, #4690)
In reply to: Microsoft's DRM vision by darthmdh
Parent article: Microsoft's DRM vision

Folks,

I believe we are looking at the problem in the wrong way. Look at the legislation that has been commandeered to sustain such an ecosystem, and follow the money. In almost all cases, it's not the original content creator, but the distribution channel middleman. As comsumers, if we don't like it, we should take our money elsewhere.

My buying/renting of traditional music/video has dropped to almost NIL.
I am now listening to (and paying for) songs from sites such as http://www.magnatunes.com, where 50% of the revenue goes to the artiste and there is no lock-in contract.

What's the difference? The Creative Commons Licence. Is it perfect? Probably not. However, it's one of the ways to keep things sane, and empowers the author, and yet allows for true "fair-use" and the production of "derivatives" without presuming everyone a criminal. Artistes/authors should be encouraged to publish under such a licence by the support we give them. The idea is that if there is no inherent upstream "need", then the DRM schemes are moot.

It is almost like moving to a new country with different laws to escape governmental or religious domination, but I won't elaborate on that analogy here.

Regards,
WS

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