Comment Re:DRM adoption (Score 1) 290
Why would it ever evolve? If they're going for the jugular now, and they ever succeed, what would ever cause them to want to release their stranglehold?
Ultimately they won't succeed. They have created an atmosphere whereby there is huge incentives to crack the DRM schemes and provide alternate (quasi-legal) distribution of copyrighted content. This has the effect of an arms escalation between the RIAA (or whoever) and the "hackers" with a no win situation for the copyright holders.
Currently this makes a lot of people into "criminals" who would be happier to have a reliable method of obtaining content for a reasonable cost. The trick is to find out the threshold below which people will click through Paypal to obtain a high quality MP3.
For the current middlemen, they need to add value to the process by brokering deals so that the users are presented with an aggregated view of possible choices (such as PPV does for movies). It is a non-starter to have single studio or company offerings; again, this provides incentive for "Napster" type systems to step in and provide the aggregated view.
jrp
Ultimately they won't succeed. They have created an atmosphere whereby there is huge incentives to crack the DRM schemes and provide alternate (quasi-legal) distribution of copyrighted content. This has the effect of an arms escalation between the RIAA (or whoever) and the "hackers" with a no win situation for the copyright holders.
Currently this makes a lot of people into "criminals" who would be happier to have a reliable method of obtaining content for a reasonable cost. The trick is to find out the threshold below which people will click through Paypal to obtain a high quality MP3.
For the current middlemen, they need to add value to the process by brokering deals so that the users are presented with an aggregated view of possible choices (such as PPV does for movies). It is a non-starter to have single studio or company offerings; again, this provides incentive for "Napster" type systems to step in and provide the aggregated view.
jrp
