[clue-talk] DRM ain't all bad

[Brian Gibson]

And here's an example of what I am talking about:

http://potw.news.yahoo.com/s/potw/61785/how-to-become-a-rock-star

* Content creator self-publishes and retains
attribution to his music.
* Monetizes content through donations, physical
copies, performances, and merchandising
* Has direct access to his audience, directly
interacts with them, and creates a community

Ends up making more money as a musician than he ever
did as a programmer.

--- Brian Gibson <bwg1974 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Digital rights management is used as a means of
> information control and the establishment of a time
> limited monopoly (ha! not with current legislation).
> 
> DRM may leverage security measures like encryption
> and
> access controls to accomplish this goal, but just
> because medical privacy technology and DRM use the
> same methods, that does not automatically mean they
> have the same goals.  
> 
> It boils down to the fact that it's silly at our
> current technological level that any content that
> can
> be digitized should ever be granted protection
> beyond
> attribution.  When perfect copies can be distributed
> at only the cost of the transmission service, the
> resource supply is virtually infinite.  This it not
> to
> say that content producers should not be compensated
> for their efforts, but to point out the futility of
> trying to extract money from sales of copies of a
> particular work beyond the cost of distribution. 
> What
> is of value now is the ability for a content
> producer
> to create a brand  and leverage it through
> physically
> limited means: "official" merchandise, live
> performances, autographed/certified (hard) copies,
> etc.
> 
> Furthermore, we've reached the point where content
> producers have direct access to their audiences. 
> There is no need for a centralized company to
> acquire
> content and distribute it.  These distribution
> companies as we've known them for that past 50 years
> are not going to be the same companies in the next
> 50
> years.  They're either going to transform into
> businesses that service content producers (as soon
> as
> they quit their legal crusade), or they'll be
> crushed
> by those businesses that rise to embrace the new
> paradigm.
> 
> I wouldn't be surprised if we return to the old
> system
> of patronage and sponsorship to fund content
> producers.
> 
> --- "Jed S. Baer" <cluemail at jbaer.cotse.net> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Folks.
> > 
> > I noticed at the last CLUE meeting that CLUEbies
> > seem to have a pretty
> > typical revulsion for DRM. Just like most folks, I
> > disagree with the use
> > of DRM to interfere with fair use, backups, etc.,
> > i.e. legitimate uses
> > and copying of audio and video. It doesn't take a
> > lot of effort to
> > imagine other improper uses of DRM, for example
> > restricting access to
> > public documents (or documents you think should be
> > public, but the govt.
> > disagrees).
> > 
> > But I noticed a news story today which brought to
> > mind a legitimate use
> > of DRM technology.
> > 
> >
>
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080221/D8UUN0100.html
> > -- Google to
> > Store Patients’ Health Records
> > 
> > If you follow this stuff at all, you probably
> > realize that you don't have
> > a lot of medical privacy any longer. I can imagine
> a
> > medical records
> > system utilizing DRM technology to restrict access
> > on a need-to-know
> > basis, and prevent health records from being
> copied
> > inappropriately.
> > 
> > Of course, I don't deceive myself that such a
> system
> > would be simple to
> > implement. And of course, it would suffer from the
> > same issues that
> > current cryptologic and security systems do, such
> as
> > getting people to
> > use sufficiently strong passphrases, and biometric
> > spoofing.
> > 
> > jed
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