Comment Keyword "Rights" (Score 1) 385
I have no problem with restricted media per se. I WOULD appreciate a little more truth in advertising (they shouldn't be allowed to say they're "selling" this stuff to you), but there should be some incentive to create this stuff and until a viable business model is developed it's something I'll live with. Sure, there are plenty of things that piss me off - only playing on certain devices, not being able to make a backup, never passing to the public domain, licensing fees preventing development of free software players, being treated like a criminal even though I paid for it, the knowledge that the man has you by the short hairs, ...
But while this stuff is galling, and pretty annoying, at the end of the day most of the stuff being turned out now is crap. What SCARES THE SHIT OUT OF ME is Trusted Computing, which is ultimately going to have to be a part of DRM.
But while this stuff is galling, and pretty annoying, at the end of the day most of the stuff being turned out now is crap. What SCARES THE SHIT OUT OF ME is Trusted Computing, which is ultimately going to have to be a part of DRM.
