Comments on: Framing the DRM Debate http://techliberation.com/2007/03/20/framing-the-drm-debate/ Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology Thu, 18 Mar 2010 03:03:36 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://techliberation.com/2007/03/20/framing-the-drm-debate/comment-page-1/#comment-50712 Anonymous Wed, 21 Mar 2007 21:14:11 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2007/03/20/framing-the-drm-debate/#comment-50712 I haven't had any trouble with my iTunes DRM, which is the only form I purchase. However, this morning I was reading a post on composer Shelly Palmer's blog, <a href="http://advancedmediacommittee.typepad.com/emmyadvancedmedia/2007/02/the_other_digit.html" rel="nofollow">about the harm that DRM may do to musicians and the "new" creativity</a>. His point is, re-mixing and sampling is a thriving form of creativity. What happens when DRM-ed music makes this impossible?<br><br>It's worth considering. What if artists couldn't edit and play with music, to make new songs? Wouldn't the music industry be missing a lot of material?<br><br>- Jess I haven’t had any trouble with my iTunes DRM, which is the only form I purchase. However, this morning I was reading a post on composer Shelly Palmer’s blog, about the harm that DRM may do to musicians and the “new” creativity. His point is, re-mixing and sampling is a thriving form of creativity. What happens when DRM-ed music makes this impossible?

It’s worth considering. What if artists couldn’t edit and play with music, to make new songs? Wouldn’t the music industry be missing a lot of material?

- Jess

]]> By: Anonymous http://techliberation.com/2007/03/20/framing-the-drm-debate/comment-page-1/#comment-37635 Anonymous Wed, 21 Mar 2007 20:14:11 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2007/03/20/framing-the-drm-debate/#comment-37635 I haven't had any trouble with my iTunes DRM, which is the only form I purchase. However, this morning I was reading a post on composer Shelly Palmer's blog, <a href="http://advancedmediacommittee.typepad.com/emmyadvancedmedia/2007/02/the_other_digit.html" rel="nofollow">about the harm that DRM may do to musicians and the "new" creativity</a>. His point is, re-mixing and sampling is a thriving form of creativity. What happens when DRM-ed music makes this impossible? It's worth considering. What if artists couldn't edit and play with music, to make new songs? Wouldn't the music industry be missing a lot of material? - Jess I haven’t had any trouble with my iTunes DRM, which is the only form I purchase. However, this morning I was reading a post on composer Shelly Palmer’s blog, about the harm that DRM may do to musicians and the “new” creativity. His point is, re-mixing and sampling is a thriving form of creativity. What happens when DRM-ed music makes this impossible?

It’s worth considering. What if artists couldn’t edit and play with music, to make new songs? Wouldn’t the music industry be missing a lot of material?

- Jess

]]> By: Noel Le http://techliberation.com/2007/03/20/framing-the-drm-debate/comment-page-1/#comment-50711 Noel Le Tue, 20 Mar 2007 19:26:28 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2007/03/20/framing-the-drm-debate/#comment-50711 Surprise, surprise. A TLF post on framing results in framed responses:)<br><br>Doug, did you read those articles I suggested. Surprise, surprise. A TLF post on framing results in framed responses:)

Doug, did you read those articles I suggested.

]]> By: Doug Lay http://techliberation.com/2007/03/20/framing-the-drm-debate/comment-page-1/#comment-50710 Doug Lay Tue, 20 Mar 2007 18:40:14 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2007/03/20/framing-the-drm-debate/#comment-50710 DRM is a sad attempt to artificially re-create a formerly significant real-world constraint (difficulty of replication) that has been obliterated by the march of technology. It is backward-looking, consumers don't like it, technologists mostly loathe it, and it is likely headed for history's crapper no matter what our star-struck, techno-ignoramus legislators try to do. DRM is a sad attempt to artificially re-create a formerly significant real-world constraint (difficulty of replication) that has been obliterated by the march of technology. It is backward-looking, consumers don’t like it, technologists mostly loathe it, and it is likely headed for history’s crapper no matter what our star-struck, techno-ignoramus legislators try to do.

]]> By: Noel Le http://techliberation.com/2007/03/20/framing-the-drm-debate/comment-page-1/#comment-37634 Noel Le Tue, 20 Mar 2007 18:26:28 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2007/03/20/framing-the-drm-debate/#comment-37634 Surprise, surprise. A TLF post on framing results in framed responses:) Doug, did you read those articles I suggested. Surprise, surprise. A TLF post on framing results in framed responses:)

Doug, did you read those articles I suggested.

]]> By: Noel Le http://techliberation.com/2007/03/20/framing-the-drm-debate/comment-page-1/#comment-50709 Noel Le Tue, 20 Mar 2007 17:54:43 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2007/03/20/framing-the-drm-debate/#comment-50709 Thats the kind of response Tim was looking for, as was Jim Harper when he was fishing for comments on PFF last week. Thats the kind of response Tim was looking for, as was Jim Harper when he was fishing for comments on PFF last week.

]]> By: James Governor http://techliberation.com/2007/03/20/framing-the-drm-debate/comment-page-1/#comment-50708 James Governor Tue, 20 Mar 2007 17:41:27 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2007/03/20/framing-the-drm-debate/#comment-50708 I frame DRM as digital lard. it clogs up the arteries of high value digital lives. why would you eat lard by choice, and become far less healthy in the process. DRM = digital lard I frame DRM as digital lard. it clogs up the arteries of high value digital lives. why would you eat lard by choice, and become far less healthy in the process. DRM = digital lard

]]> By: Doug Lay http://techliberation.com/2007/03/20/framing-the-drm-debate/comment-page-1/#comment-37633 Doug Lay Tue, 20 Mar 2007 17:40:14 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2007/03/20/framing-the-drm-debate/#comment-37633 DRM is a sad attempt to artificially re-create a formerly significant real-world constraint (difficulty of replication) that has been obliterated by the march of technology. It is backward-looking, consumers don't like it, technologists mostly loathe it, and it is likely headed for history's crapper no matter what our star-struck, techno-ignoramus legislators try to do. DRM is a sad attempt to artificially re-create a formerly significant real-world constraint (difficulty of replication) that has been obliterated by the march of technology. It is backward-looking, consumers don’t like it, technologists mostly loathe it, and it is likely headed for history’s crapper no matter what our star-struck, techno-ignoramus legislators try to do.

]]> By: Noel Le http://techliberation.com/2007/03/20/framing-the-drm-debate/comment-page-1/#comment-37632 Noel Le Tue, 20 Mar 2007 16:54:43 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2007/03/20/framing-the-drm-debate/#comment-37632 Thats the kind of response Tim was looking for, as was Jim Harper when he was fishing for comments on PFF last week. Thats the kind of response Tim was looking for, as was Jim Harper when he was fishing for comments on PFF last week.

]]> By: James Governor http://techliberation.com/2007/03/20/framing-the-drm-debate/comment-page-1/#comment-37631 James Governor Tue, 20 Mar 2007 16:41:27 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2007/03/20/framing-the-drm-debate/#comment-37631 I frame DRM as digital lard. it clogs up the arteries of high value digital lives. why would you eat lard by choice, and become far less healthy in the process. DRM = digital lard I frame DRM as digital lard. it clogs up the arteries of high value digital lives. why would you eat lard by choice, and become far less healthy in the process. DRM = digital lard

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