Best post I’ve seen in a long time
Hannibal at Ars Technica just made a post about having the tech industry start up it’s own content production and take it out of the DRM loving Hollywood scene.
It all started with an outburst at a DRM panel discussion in Barcelona by a member of the audience:
bq. “Why are you such a bunch of big girls?” asked Birch. “Why don’t you tell the content owners to just get stuffed?” He continued unabated: “You’re too seduced by the content industry, Hollywood is not even a $10 billion industry. Hollywood is small compared to the telecom industry. Why don’t you take a stronger line? Consumers don’t want DRM at all. You can’t sell DRM.”
I hope someone gives this a long and hard thought. You know I hate DRM — any kind, for especially for music. Where are our fair use rights going? This along with eternal copyright extension acts (search for Sunny Bono copyright extension act) continue to be big pet peeves of mine.