Non-P2P DRM / Copyright News Comments 2006-10-19
I just wish AllOfMP3’s prices could be legal. Even Wal-Mart and Best Buy are fed-up. $2-4 albums, 25c Songs. Oh well. Back to Emule.
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Some articles on the YouTube stuff. I want YouTube to stick around un-mutated. But Emule works just fine for homebrew short-movies too.
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I’ve seen the same thing happen with games. Someone buys a game and becomes mildly annoyed at having to have the disc in the drive each time the want to play it (even though all the game content is stored on their hard drive). They do a little research and discover a world of cracks and patches. All that it takes is someone being “mildly annoyed”. That, and the satisfaction of sticking it to the man and defeating a copy protection technology which cost the company a small fortune in a few seconds using free tools. That crack didn’t cost the games industry anything, but again it introduced a legitimate consumer to methods of acquiring games for nothing. That hurts the games industry.
I like this part of the ZDNet article.
“I understand that if we frustrate the consumer, they will simply pirate the content,” he said. “The issue we face today is that consumers are buying content that uses specific DRM and that, in turn, is gradually creating a world of separate DRM systems.”
He isn’t conceeding completely. Just on the proprietary nature of current DRM schemes pioneered by oh glorious (not) proprietary Apple. Even open, inter-operable DRM will frustrate some customers if the restrictions are too tight.
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Here is a nice comprehensive USA copyright term table (Reality not fantasy or wannabe).
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Only South Africa, Nigera and Algeria have much measurable presence on Emule. Get more Africans on Emule so piracy-4-free can put piracy-for-money out of business.
