11.07.2007
Why DRM is crap
See http://www.boingboing.net/2007/11/07/mlb-rips-off-fans-wh.html
This is precisely what I fear with DRM technologies. You don't ever have a property interest in what you are buying. Plus, you can never be certain how much you are benefiting the actual "owner" of intellectual property when you purchase DRM-addled media from a conglomerate. It's not clear to me that these technologies have any use other than polluting the market with low-quality, hard-to-use, hard-to-transfer media that is not cost-justified.
That's all.
This is precisely what I fear with DRM technologies. You don't ever have a property interest in what you are buying. Plus, you can never be certain how much you are benefiting the actual "owner" of intellectual property when you purchase DRM-addled media from a conglomerate. It's not clear to me that these technologies have any use other than polluting the market with low-quality, hard-to-use, hard-to-transfer media that is not cost-justified.
That's all.
