Comments on: Why DRM Doesn’t Work http://techliberation.com/2007/10/10/why-drm-doesnt-work/ Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology Tue, 14 Feb 2012 12:51:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: rybolov http://techliberation.com/2007/10/10/why-drm-doesnt-work/comment-page-1/#comment-48221 rybolov Wed, 10 Oct 2007 18:29:08 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2007/10/10/why-drm-doesnt-work/#comment-48221 <p>Once again, it's not the technology that needs to change, it's the business model. The more that the message gets out, the better we all are in the end.</p> Once again, it’s not the technology that needs to change, it’s the business model. The more that the message gets out, the better we all are in the end.

]]> By: Steve R. http://techliberation.com/2007/10/10/why-drm-doesnt-work/comment-page-1/#comment-48220 Steve R. Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:49:11 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2007/10/10/why-drm-doesnt-work/#comment-48220 <p>The New York Times, gasp, actually has an <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/10/education/10students.html?ref=business" rel="nofollow"> article (File-Sharing Students Fight Copyright Constraints)</a> highlighting that political activism may be taking root.<br><br>The article also quotes Doctorow <i>"Cory Doctorow, co-editor of the popular technology blog Boing Boing, said the recording industry lawsuits were not “scaring students away from file-sharing, but scaring them into political consciousness.”"</i><br><br>If you want make your products available to everyone, the use of encryption and DRM technologies is an oxymoron since these technologies are designed to minimize access to information as the post explains.</p> The New York Times, gasp, actually has an article (File-Sharing Students Fight Copyright Constraints) highlighting that political activism may be taking root.

The article also quotes Doctorow “Cory Doctorow, co-editor of the popular technology blog Boing Boing, said the recording industry lawsuits were not “scaring students away from file-sharing, but scaring them into political consciousness.””

If you want make your products available to everyone, the use of encryption and DRM technologies is an oxymoron since these technologies are designed to minimize access to information as the post explains.

]]> By: rybolov http://techliberation.com/2007/10/10/why-drm-doesnt-work/comment-page-1/#comment-39521 rybolov Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:29:08 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2007/10/10/why-drm-doesnt-work/#comment-39521 <p>Once again, it's not the technology that needs to change, it's the business model. The more that the message gets out, the better we all are in the end.</p> Once again, it’s not the technology that needs to change, it’s the business model. The more that the message gets out, the better we all are in the end.

]]> By: Steve R. http://techliberation.com/2007/10/10/why-drm-doesnt-work/comment-page-1/#comment-39520 Steve R. Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:49:11 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2007/10/10/why-drm-doesnt-work/#comment-39520 <p>The New York Times, gasp, actually has an <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/10/education/10students.html?ref=business" rel="nofollow"> article (File-Sharing Students Fight Copyright Constraints)</a> highlighting that political activism may be taking root.</p> <p>The article also quotes Doctorow <i>"Cory Doctorow, co-editor of the popular technology blog Boing Boing, said the recording industry lawsuits were not “scaring students away from file-sharing, but scaring them into political consciousness.”"</i></p> <p>If you want make your products available to everyone, the use of encryption and DRM technologies is an oxymoron since these technologies are designed to minimize access to information as the post explains.</p> The New York Times, gasp, actually has an article (File-Sharing Students Fight Copyright Constraints) highlighting that political activism may be taking root.

The article also quotes Doctorow “Cory Doctorow, co-editor of the popular technology blog Boing Boing, said the recording industry lawsuits were not “scaring students away from file-sharing, but scaring them into political consciousness.””

If you want make your products available to everyone, the use of encryption and DRM technologies is an oxymoron since these technologies are designed to minimize access to information as the post explains.

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