http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/27/mpaa-says-its-committed-to-fair-use-interoperability-and-uh/ Engadget Comments for MPAA says it's committed to fair use, interoperability, and, uh, DRM http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/27/mpaa-says-its-committed-to-fair-use-interoperability-and-uh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/27/mpaa-says-its-committed-to-fair-use-interoperability-and-uh/that at the same time adds drm lol, at least its a step]]>Apr 27th 2007 7:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/27/mpaa-says-its-committed-to-fair-use-interoperability-and-uh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/27/mpaa-says-its-committed-to-fair-use-interoperability-and-uh/Apr 27th 2007 8:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/27/mpaa-says-its-committed-to-fair-use-interoperability-and-uh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/27/mpaa-says-its-committed-to-fair-use-interoperability-and-uh/Apr 27th 2007 8:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/27/mpaa-says-its-committed-to-fair-use-interoperability-and-uh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/27/mpaa-says-its-committed-to-fair-use-interoperability-and-uh/Apr 27th 2007 8:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/27/mpaa-says-its-committed-to-fair-use-interoperability-and-uh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/27/mpaa-says-its-committed-to-fair-use-interoperability-and-uh/If Mr. Glickman is really interested in making "things simple for the consumer" he would at least ask his customers what they want, and you can be sure the answer isn't protected music or movies, it's music and movies that I can do what the hell I like with after I've purchased them.
Oh well, I won't delete azureus just yet...]]>Apr 27th 2007 8:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/27/mpaa-says-its-committed-to-fair-use-interoperability-and-uh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/27/mpaa-says-its-committed-to-fair-use-interoperability-and-uh/Apr 27th 2007 8:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/27/mpaa-says-its-committed-to-fair-use-interoperability-and-uh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/27/mpaa-says-its-committed-to-fair-use-interoperability-and-uh/
But who/what will be our "Sheriff Bart" to get rid of these totally-out-of-touch-with-reality technocrats?

http://imdb.com/title/tt0071230/
]]>Apr 27th 2007 8:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/27/mpaa-says-its-committed-to-fair-use-interoperability-and-uh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/27/mpaa-says-its-committed-to-fair-use-interoperability-and-uh/
Give the governor a harumph!]]>Apr 27th 2007 8:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/27/mpaa-says-its-committed-to-fair-use-interoperability-and-uh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/27/mpaa-says-its-committed-to-fair-use-interoperability-and-uh/And a separate note; while people may not like the MPAA or the RIAA or DRM or whatever, I don't believe that a person's job defines who they are as human beings (unless they choose to make it so). The thread about Mr. Valenti dying was appalling. That man was more than his job at the MPAA, and has done more honest, real work for charities and human beings than most people ever have or ever will. You don't have to like what he did for a living, but that doesn't define who he was as a human being, and until you do anything 1/100th as positive as the charitable things he's done in his lifetime, seriously, stfu. If you think that the MPAA, DRM, etc. is so bad, then why not come up with something better? ]]>Apr 27th 2007 10:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/27/mpaa-says-its-committed-to-fair-use-interoperability-and-uh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/27/mpaa-says-its-committed-to-fair-use-interoperability-and-uh/
There already is something better, its called good old clean drm-free DVDs and CDs and been sold for over 10 years.

... I've bought two DVD recently that just wouldn't play either in my computer NOR MY DVD PLAYER because of that stupid DRM. Do I need to tell you I'm not going to buy DVDs for a while?]]>Apr 27th 2007 10:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/27/mpaa-says-its-committed-to-fair-use-interoperability-and-uh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/27/mpaa-says-its-committed-to-fair-use-interoperability-and-uh/Apr 27th 2007 11:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/27/mpaa-says-its-committed-to-fair-use-interoperability-and-uh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/27/mpaa-says-its-committed-to-fair-use-interoperability-and-uh/While some people think pro-consumer has to be anti-business, there needs to be a middle ground that enables artists, technicians, software developers, gaffers, CD graphic designers, field reps, and all of the myriad people involved with the product manufacturing, creation, distribution, promotion, and so on to be compensated while allowing average-income people to purchase and enjoy their creations. Businesses who make other products are usually compensated this way. Arts are always tricky in that regard; while they give a lot to us in terms of lifting our spirits or impacting us emotionally, we don't tend to place much value upon them; we feel entitled to the works those people make. So is it the same as a car? No, in part because more people feel that they have to purchase a car and that it is a necessity to earn a living. But tangible goods are either sold or rented, they're not usually licensed. However, you ARE given a license to drive that vehicle, and if you violate that license it can be suspended, revoked, or have you arrested, depending upon the infraction (even if you paid for the license, you don't get a refund!). If you rent a vehicle, that is a sort of license agreement, and you can be given restrictions for how far you can take the car, etc. or you'll be charged with fines. So it's best to try and keep metaphors equal; tangible goods do not equal licenses.
I think it would be great if more artists became independent businesses, but that can't work for all of them, and it can't work for movies. Artists need promotion, management, and all of those necessary evils to compete in the marketplace. I think media companies are in need of a better business model, but unprotected media created a lot of problems too. I guess the reason they don't invite consumers to these things is because, first of all, if they say 'legal and protected' and that somehow automatically equals DRM, or something bad, then how is any progress going to be made? Why is legal and protected bad, if it does the things consumers want? He says he wants it to be easy for the consumer, but until someone gives them some choices for how that can happen without forcing me to pay extra to compensate for projected loss (and whether or not they feel that loss is moot; I ain't Robin Hood), then I'll just look it as a good thing that they're willing to at least look at options, especially once there are some. ]]>Apr 27th 2007 12:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/27/mpaa-says-its-committed-to-fair-use-interoperability-and-uh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/27/mpaa-says-its-committed-to-fair-use-interoperability-and-uh/
I applaud your corporate allegiance but it is misplaced in this case.

I lost a hard drive to that cruddy Sony DRM removal tool and you know what, never again! DRM flat out stinks, and we should not purchase any product with it on there as it is anti-consumer.]]>Apr 27th 2007 1:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/27/mpaa-says-its-committed-to-fair-use-interoperability-and-uh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/27/mpaa-says-its-committed-to-fair-use-interoperability-and-uh/
Of course, why didn't the movie industry think of that? We'll just *sternly warn* the files to work only for Johnny Jones of South Wichita Falls. It better not play for any other people, _or else_. Johnny can make a copy of the DVD, so that if it get scratched he still has the original, or rip it so he can watch it on his PSP, but if you rip it so Johnny's friend Jimmy can put it on *his* iPod, well, it won't work, right? ...Because of the *pixie dust*?

Seriously, DRM is hard, mostly because it's mathematically impossible to do 100% right -- it's not a matter of *if* DRM will be broken, but *when* (see the previous Engadget articles on AACS). The only variable is how valuable the protected content is: the more people think it's worth, the harder they'll work to break into it. Even if somebody could work out a perfect system -- say, distribute product that only works on a 100% closed, tamper proof system (ships with the whole motherboard encased in a block of epoxy!) -- you couldn't let the consumer do what they want with it, as that will inevitably require putting the content somewhere you *don't* control. See, freedom to do what you want with content you pay for is 180 degrees opposite from the copyright-holder's ability to control piracy. It's a line with your rights at one end and content-providers' rights at the other, and the best we can do is try to strike the right balance by setting laws someplace in the middle, at least until somebody is able to come up with a paradigm-shifting idea, something that changes the rules, so it's not a zero-sum game anymore.

Me? I'm not holding my breath.]]>Apr 27th 2007 4:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/27/mpaa-says-its-committed-to-fair-use-interoperability-and-uh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/27/mpaa-says-its-committed-to-fair-use-interoperability-and-uh/http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/005010.php

I hope they invite us to this "technology summit".

Sincerely,
David Onigman
Load 'N Go Video ]]>Apr 27th 2007 5:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/27/mpaa-says-its-committed-to-fair-use-interoperability-and-uh/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/27/mpaa-says-its-committed-to-fair-use-interoperability-and-uh/
Particularly exceptional movies I will want to revisit as the years pass, but since technology advances so fast, it seems like a better idea to just rent the movie again later than to buy it now and see the format outdated in 5 or 10 years.

I don't think I own more than 30 DVDs, and about five of those came free with my first-gen DVD player. I just don't understand why you'd want to spend so much money for an item you're typically not going to use more than two or three times.]]>Apr 28th 2007 10:53PM