http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/dece-and-keychain-both-laying-claim-to-friendly-drm-of-the-future/ Engadget Comments for DECE & Keychest both laying claim to friendly DRM of the future title 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/2010/01/06/dece-and-keychain-both-laying-claim-to-friendly-drm-of-the-future/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/dece-and-keychain-both-laying-claim-to-friendly-drm-of-the-future/]]>Jan 6th 2010 4:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/dece-and-keychain-both-laying-claim-to-friendly-drm-of-the-future/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/dece-and-keychain-both-laying-claim-to-friendly-drm-of-the-future/
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The harder they try to protect content, the more motivated hackers will be to try to crack it as fast as they can.

Open up the content and serve it up for cheap, and people will find it compelling to buy it.]]>Jan 6th 2010 5:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/dece-and-keychain-both-laying-claim-to-friendly-drm-of-the-future/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/dece-and-keychain-both-laying-claim-to-friendly-drm-of-the-future/
Sorry content industry, you've dicked consumers over for nearly 50 years, but your free ride is over. Pirates aren't evil, they're the ones keeping it real. You're the ones living in a fantasy world.]]>Jan 6th 2010 9:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/dece-and-keychain-both-laying-claim-to-friendly-drm-of-the-future/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/dece-and-keychain-both-laying-claim-to-friendly-drm-of-the-future/Jan 6th 2010 10:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/dece-and-keychain-both-laying-claim-to-friendly-drm-of-the-future/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/dece-and-keychain-both-laying-claim-to-friendly-drm-of-the-future/...there's an oxymoron in there somewhere. The point of DRM is to not work for consumers.]]>Jan 6th 2010 6:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/dece-and-keychain-both-laying-claim-to-friendly-drm-of-the-future/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/dece-and-keychain-both-laying-claim-to-friendly-drm-of-the-future/Jan 6th 2010 6:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/dece-and-keychain-both-laying-claim-to-friendly-drm-of-the-future/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/dece-and-keychain-both-laying-claim-to-friendly-drm-of-the-future/
Oh, I see..]]>Jan 6th 2010 6:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/dece-and-keychain-both-laying-claim-to-friendly-drm-of-the-future/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/dece-and-keychain-both-laying-claim-to-friendly-drm-of-the-future/Jan 6th 2010 7:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/dece-and-keychain-both-laying-claim-to-friendly-drm-of-the-future/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/dece-and-keychain-both-laying-claim-to-friendly-drm-of-the-future/
"friendly DRM of the future" !!!!!

By definition DRM is not 'friendly', it is user hostile. It presupposes that the customer is a crook and unless measures are take to shackle the customer into as narrow a set of limitations as possible, the customer will take every opportunity 100% of the time to do something illegal with the product.

Now I'm not in any way backing piracy. Yes I have a few files here and there that were copied from someone else etc. It's hard to find a computer on the planet that doesn't. But that doesn't mean everyone is automatically a pirate nor does it justify the draconian measures company take with DRM. Legally I have the right to make as many copy's as I want in as many formats as I want... for my own use. Most DRM makes it imposable to do without breaking other laws (such as circumventing DRM). Just exercising your rights given with one law is breaking the law with another law.

There has to be a change somehow. I have no idea what the right way is to satisfy both consumer rights and company's rights. There was a time when you could loan a book to anyone, copy any music you had from the radio, LP player, or tape deck to another tape, tape off the TV with your VCR and give it to a friend. All entirely legal. Now only the lending of a book is legal and they are trying to take that away to. Consumers have lost rights and company's say they have lost money. Why are both sides loosing?? I think it's DRM but the company's will tell you it's not. I'm pretty sure of this because I used to buy ton's of music on LP's and audio cassettes and gave out copy's freely to friends. There's ton's of new music I like but I rarely buy a CD because they are 1) expensive (higher percent of my income) and 2) generally only have 1 good song and 3) The law is still in conflict over weather I can share with friends or even make copy's for myself etc. I also rarely buy MP3's. 1) they have to be 100% DRM free, 2) the law is again uncertain because there are still conflicting laws as to what I can and can not do. 3) Until the laws are sorted out and there is a fair and equitable solution for consumers and company's (yes I car about company's and musicians. Need them to make the music for me.) I'm just going to listen to what I like for free on Pandora. Problem solved for now, except for when I go on a walk or am in the car. I guess this was to long and wordy to make a simple point and I'm to tired to go back and edit it down. Sorry. But DRM in general has just pissed me off from day one.

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