http://techliberation.com/2006/05/10/just-what-consumers-need/ 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 http://techliberation.com/2006/05/10/just-what-consumers-need/comment-page-1/#comment-55402 dmarti Fri, 12 May 2006 18:21:44 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2006/05/10/just-what-consumers-need/#comment-55402 <p>Berlind has the DRMers' motivation wrong. They're not going for "Dr. Strangelove", they're going for "The Postman". <a href="http://zgp.org/~dmarti/blosxom/freedom/down-the-mine-shaft.html" rel="nofollow">Power in the DRM world</a> wouldn't be a DRM-enforced version of power today.</p> Berlind has the DRMers’ motivation wrong. They’re not going for “Dr. Strangelove”, they’re going for “The Postman”. Power in the DRM world wouldn’t be a DRM-enforced version of power today.

]]> http://techliberation.com/2006/05/10/just-what-consumers-need/comment-page-1/#comment-33389 Don Marti Fri, 12 May 2006 17:21:44 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2006/05/10/just-what-consumers-need/#comment-33389 <p>Berlind has the DRMers' motivation wrong. They're not going for "Dr. Strangelove", they're going for "The Postman". <a href="http://zgp.org/~dmarti/blosxom/freedom/down-the-mine-shaft.html" rel="nofollow">Power in the DRM world</a> wouldn't be a DRM-enforced version of power today.</p> Berlind has the DRMers’ motivation wrong. They’re not going for “Dr. Strangelove”, they’re going for “The Postman”. Power in the DRM world wouldn’t be a DRM-enforced version of power today.

]]> http://techliberation.com/2006/05/10/just-what-consumers-need/comment-page-1/#comment-55401 Steve R. Thu, 11 May 2006 16:59:59 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2006/05/10/just-what-consumers-need/#comment-55401 <p>The story of the "Tower of Babel" serves as an excellent allegory. The personal computer became ubiquitous because M$ through Windows offered a common unified platform. Now DRM technologies are being introduced which significantly frustrate interoperablity through the introduction of different "languages". The effect of introducing different languages in the "Tower of Babel" story was that the workers could no longer communicate with each other to finish constructing the tower. By insisting on proprietary techologies that destroy the consumers freedom of choice, companies are actually hurting themselves.</p> The story of the “Tower of Babel” serves as an excellent allegory. The personal computer became ubiquitous because M$ through Windows offered a common unified platform. Now DRM technologies are being introduced which significantly frustrate interoperablity through the introduction of different “languages”. The effect of introducing different languages in the “Tower of Babel” story was that the workers could no longer communicate with each other to finish constructing the tower. By insisting on proprietary techologies that destroy the consumers freedom of choice, companies are actually hurting themselves.

]]> http://techliberation.com/2006/05/10/just-what-consumers-need/comment-page-1/#comment-33388 Steve R. Thu, 11 May 2006 15:59:59 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2006/05/10/just-what-consumers-need/#comment-33388 <p>The story of the "Tower of Babel" serves as an excellent allegory. The personal computer became ubiquitous because M$ through Windows offered a common unified platform. Now DRM technologies are being introduced which significantly frustrate interoperablity through the introduction of different "languages". The effect of introducing different languages in the "Tower of Babel" story was that the workers could no longer communicate with each other to finish constructing the tower. By insisting on proprietary techologies that destroy the consumers freedom of choice, companies are actually hurting themselves.</p> The story of the “Tower of Babel” serves as an excellent allegory. The personal computer became ubiquitous because M$ through Windows offered a common unified platform. Now DRM technologies are being introduced which significantly frustrate interoperablity through the introduction of different “languages”. The effect of introducing different languages in the “Tower of Babel” story was that the workers could no longer communicate with each other to finish constructing the tower. By insisting on proprietary techologies that destroy the consumers freedom of choice, companies are actually hurting themselves.

]]> http://techliberation.com/2006/05/10/just-what-consumers-need/comment-page-1/#comment-55400 MikeT Thu, 11 May 2006 12:59:07 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2006/05/10/just-what-consumers-need/#comment-55400 <p>I rember Patrick Ross describing the existance of multiple different DRMs/codec combos as a feature, rather than a problem. How is this a good market situation? We have four or five vendors, all of whom use different codecs and DRM schemes. I'm not an economist, but this seems to be the height of inefficiency in the market and a bad sign.</p> I rember Patrick Ross describing the existance of multiple different DRMs/codec combos as a feature, rather than a problem. How is this a good market situation? We have four or five vendors, all of whom use different codecs and DRM schemes. I’m not an economist, but this seems to be the height of inefficiency in the market and a bad sign.

]]> http://techliberation.com/2006/05/10/just-what-consumers-need/comment-page-1/#comment-33387 MikeT Thu, 11 May 2006 11:59:07 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2006/05/10/just-what-consumers-need/#comment-33387 <p>I rember Patrick Ross describing the existance of multiple different DRMs/codec combos as a feature, rather than a problem. How is this a good market situation? We have four or five vendors, all of whom use different codecs and DRM schemes. I'm not an economist, but this seems to be the height of inefficiency in the market and a bad sign.</p> I rember Patrick Ross describing the existance of multiple different DRMs/codec combos as a feature, rather than a problem. How is this a good market situation? We have four or five vendors, all of whom use different codecs and DRM schemes. I’m not an economist, but this seems to be the height of inefficiency in the market and a bad sign.

]]> http://techliberation.com/2006/05/10/just-what-consumers-need/comment-page-1/#comment-55399 Luis Villa Thu, 11 May 2006 03:06:22 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2006/05/10/just-what-consumers-need/#comment-55399 <p>DReaM is <i>slightly</i> better, in that it is an open standard and so in theory could have multiple competing implementations (unlike FairPlay) and implementations on multiple platforms (unlike PlaysForSure.) Otherwise, no, it isn't any better- certainly isn't meaningfully open source, and like you say, is Yet Another Non-Interoperable Platform, which only continues thwarting actual competition like we've grown to expect in CD players, DVDs, etc.</p> DReaM is slightly better, in that it is an open standard and so in theory could have multiple competing implementations (unlike FairPlay) and implementations on multiple platforms (unlike PlaysForSure.) Otherwise, no, it isn’t any better- certainly isn’t meaningfully open source, and like you say, is Yet Another Non-Interoperable Platform, which only continues thwarting actual competition like we’ve grown to expect in CD players, DVDs, etc.

]]> http://techliberation.com/2006/05/10/just-what-consumers-need/comment-page-1/#comment-33386 Luis Villa Thu, 11 May 2006 02:06:22 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2006/05/10/just-what-consumers-need/#comment-33386 <p>DReaM is <i>slightly</i> better, in that it is an open standard and so in theory could have multiple competing implementations (unlike FairPlay) and implementations on multiple platforms (unlike PlaysForSure.) Otherwise, no, it isn't any better- certainly isn't meaningfully open source, and like you say, is Yet Another Non-Interoperable Platform, which only continues thwarting actual competition like we've grown to expect in CD players, DVDs, etc.</p> DReaM is slightly better, in that it is an open standard and so in theory could have multiple competing implementations (unlike FairPlay) and implementations on multiple platforms (unlike PlaysForSure.) Otherwise, no, it isn’t any better- certainly isn’t meaningfully open source, and like you say, is Yet Another Non-Interoperable Platform, which only continues thwarting actual competition like we’ve grown to expect in CD players, DVDs, etc.

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