Comment Re:Same Old FUD (Score 1) 116
IMHO, DRM is going to be bitter sweet for the OSS community. Nobody seems to want it, yet, without it, there is no incentive for "the little guy" to make any real content. Sure, a few Honest Joes will pony up the cash for their content, but, in my experience, the rest of them will simply steal it.
If OSS would consider DRM, then we could come up with a grass roots effort to displace Big Media (e.g. - pay the Little Guy for good content). The thing is, the sheer size of the viewership would make content *nearly* free (e.g. - 30 million viewers pay you 10 cents per episode and you are rich).IMHO, DRM is going to be bitter sweet for the OSS community. Nobody seems to want it, yet, without it, there is no incentive for "the little guy" to make any real content. Sure, a few Honest Joes will pony up the cash for their content, but, in my experience, the rest of them will simply steal it.
I think you're missing the hugely important roll that a society plays in generating its own content on a level which allows and even encourages more creativity. Intellectual property laws are like a behemoth whose strong protection of copyrighted material serves to scare and dissuade the masses from making anything poinient or unique. I could drone on for hours about the impotence of current films and the disgustingly detrimental 'art' that is distributed via standard television (ever consider how beneficial/harmful the values of beauty, commercialism and greed are to society today?). The point that myself and Law professor Lawrance Lessig make, among others, is not that artists shouldn't be compnsated for the works they create (which was how copyright was originally designed) but that the balance of copyright is now so lopsided that many amazing, beautiful, pointed and appropriate works will never be created in a society where IP is something you can detain for nearly a century (why can't I see Mickey mouse without paying for it yet?).
If OSS would consider DRM, then we could come up with a grass roots effort to displace Big Media (e.g. - pay the Little Guy for good content). The thing is, the sheer size of the viewership would make content *nearly* free (e.g. - 30 million viewers pay you 10 cents per episode and you are rich).IMHO, DRM is going to be bitter sweet for the OSS community. Nobody seems to want it, yet, without it, there is no incentive for "the little guy" to make any real content. Sure, a few Honest Joes will pony up the cash for their content, but, in my experience, the rest of them will simply steal it.
I think you're missing the hugely important roll that a society plays in generating its own content on a level which allows and even encourages more creativity. Intellectual property laws are like a behemoth whose strong protection of copyrighted material serves to scare and dissuade the masses from making anything poinient or unique. I could drone on for hours about the impotence of current films and the disgustingly detrimental 'art' that is distributed via standard television (ever consider how beneficial/harmful the values of beauty, commercialism and greed are to society today?). The point that myself and Law professor Lawrance Lessig make, among others, is not that artists shouldn't be compnsated for the works they create (which was how copyright was originally designed) but that the balance of copyright is now so lopsided that many amazing, beautiful, pointed and appropriate works will never be created in a society where IP is something you can detain for nearly a century (why can't I see Mickey mouse without paying for it yet?).
