Comments on: Blogosphere Hails Tim Lee’s DMCA Paper http://techliberation.com/2006/03/22/blogosphere-hails-tim-lees-dmca-paper/ Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology Fri, 25 May 2012 13:24:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Tim http://techliberation.com/2006/03/22/blogosphere-hails-tim-lees-dmca-paper/comment-page-1/#comment-32979 Tim Fri, 24 Mar 2006 19:18:29 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2006/03/22/blogosphere-hails-tim-lees-dmca-paper/#comment-32979 <p>Steve: given how firmly Congress is in hte pocket of Hollywood, the finiteness of the copyright time limit is make-believe anyway. So while it's an interesting question in the abstract, it'll probably never matter, because nothing is ever going to fall into the public domain again.</p> Steve: given how firmly Congress is in hte pocket of Hollywood, the finiteness of the copyright time limit is make-believe anyway. So while it’s an interesting question in the abstract, it’ll probably never matter, because nothing is ever going to fall into the public domain again.

]]> By: Tim http://techliberation.com/2006/03/22/blogosphere-hails-tim-lees-dmca-paper/comment-page-1/#comment-51360 Tim Fri, 24 Mar 2006 19:18:29 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2006/03/22/blogosphere-hails-tim-lees-dmca-paper/#comment-51360 <p>Steve: given how firmly Congress is in hte pocket of Hollywood, the finiteness of the copyright time limit is make-believe anyway. So while it's an interesting question in the abstract, it'll probably never matter, because nothing is ever going to fall into the public domain again.</p> Steve: given how firmly Congress is in hte pocket of Hollywood, the finiteness of the copyright time limit is make-believe anyway. So while it’s an interesting question in the abstract, it’ll probably never matter, because nothing is ever going to fall into the public domain again.

]]> By: Steve R. http://techliberation.com/2006/03/22/blogosphere-hails-tim-lees-dmca-paper/comment-page-1/#comment-32978 Steve R. Fri, 24 Mar 2006 14:34:19 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2006/03/22/blogosphere-hails-tim-lees-dmca-paper/#comment-32978 <p>Addtional thought, one that keeps surfacing on a periodic basis.</p> <p>Both patent law and copyright law have finite time limits. So far I have not seen any discussion of how DRM technologies would recognize when content enters the public domain. Anyone have any ideas on this?</p> Addtional thought, one that keeps surfacing on a periodic basis.

Both patent law and copyright law have finite time limits. So far I have not seen any discussion of how DRM technologies would recognize when content enters the public domain. Anyone have any ideas on this?

]]> By: Steve R. http://techliberation.com/2006/03/22/blogosphere-hails-tim-lees-dmca-paper/comment-page-1/#comment-51359 Steve R. Fri, 24 Mar 2006 14:34:19 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2006/03/22/blogosphere-hails-tim-lees-dmca-paper/#comment-51359 <p>Addtional thought, one that keeps surfacing on a periodic basis.<br><br>Both patent law and copyright law have finite time limits. So far I have not seen any discussion of how DRM technologies would recognize when content enters the public domain. Anyone have any ideas on this?</p> Addtional thought, one that keeps surfacing on a periodic basis.

Both patent law and copyright law have finite time limits. So far I have not seen any discussion of how DRM technologies would recognize when content enters the public domain. Anyone have any ideas on this?

]]> By: Steve R. http://techliberation.com/2006/03/22/blogosphere-hails-tim-lees-dmca-paper/comment-page-1/#comment-32977 Steve R. Fri, 24 Mar 2006 14:23:31 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2006/03/22/blogosphere-hails-tim-lees-dmca-paper/#comment-32977 <p>Excellent Paper; additional thoughts. 1. There is a dollar cost involved in developing proprietry technology. The dollar cost is not just the actual cost of developing the technology, but also the cost of lost sales. The content industry has been trying to develop DRM standards for the next generation HD-DVDs for several year now. Think of all the sales (profits) they could have made if they had just released the HD-DVDs based on an open standard. 2. The paper notes the benefits of "open standards" starting on page 14. My concern is what happens to your personal computer when all this proprietary crap gets installed. Interoperability will be a joke. Additionally, what about the proverbial "dirty tricks", one companies proprietary program disables another's. 2a. As a follow-up, if a company wants to use DRM, they are free to use a device similar to the iPod. Under this approach, the content vendor will not be transferring the liability of protecting HIS content to ME. You may end up with a gazillion proprietary devices, don't loose the charger, but at least your computer will be really yours.</p> Excellent Paper; additional thoughts. 1. There is a dollar cost involved in developing proprietry technology. The dollar cost is not just the actual cost of developing the technology, but also the cost of lost sales. The content industry has been trying to develop DRM standards for the next generation HD-DVDs for several year now. Think of all the sales (profits) they could have made if they had just released the HD-DVDs based on an open standard. 2. The paper notes the benefits of “open standards” starting on page 14. My concern is what happens to your personal computer when all this proprietary crap gets installed. Interoperability will be a joke. Additionally, what about the proverbial “dirty tricks”, one companies proprietary program disables another’s. 2a. As a follow-up, if a company wants to use DRM, they are free to use a device similar to the iPod. Under this approach, the content vendor will not be transferring the liability of protecting HIS content to ME. You may end up with a gazillion proprietary devices, don’t loose the charger, but at least your computer will be really yours.

]]> By: Steve R. http://techliberation.com/2006/03/22/blogosphere-hails-tim-lees-dmca-paper/comment-page-1/#comment-51358 Steve R. Fri, 24 Mar 2006 14:23:31 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2006/03/22/blogosphere-hails-tim-lees-dmca-paper/#comment-51358 <p>Excellent Paper; additional thoughts.<br>1. There is a dollar cost involved in developing proprietry technology. The dollar cost is not just the actual cost of developing the technology, but also the cost of lost sales. The content industry has been trying to develop DRM standards for the next generation HD-DVDs for several year now. Think of all the sales (profits) they could have made if they had just released the HD-DVDs based on an open standard.<br>2. The paper notes the benefits of "open standards" starting on page 14. My concern is what happens to your personal computer when all this proprietary crap gets installed. Interoperability will be a joke. Additionally, what about the proverbial "dirty tricks", one companies proprietary program disables another's.<br>2a. As a follow-up, if a company wants to use DRM, they are free to use a device similar to the iPod. Under this approach, the content vendor will not be transferring the liability of protecting HIS content to ME. You may end up with a gazillion proprietary devices, don't loose the charger, but at least your computer will be really yours.</p> Excellent Paper; additional thoughts.
1. There is a dollar cost involved in developing proprietry technology. The dollar cost is not just the actual cost of developing the technology, but also the cost of lost sales. The content industry has been trying to develop DRM standards for the next generation HD-DVDs for several year now. Think of all the sales (profits) they could have made if they had just released the HD-DVDs based on an open standard.
2. The paper notes the benefits of “open standards” starting on page 14. My concern is what happens to your personal computer when all this proprietary crap gets installed. Interoperability will be a joke. Additionally, what about the proverbial “dirty tricks”, one companies proprietary program disables another’s.
2a. As a follow-up, if a company wants to use DRM, they are free to use a device similar to the iPod. Under this approach, the content vendor will not be transferring the liability of protecting HIS content to ME. You may end up with a gazillion proprietary devices, don’t loose the charger, but at least your computer will be really yours.

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