Digital Restriction Management

iuranovit berichtet über eine bisher wenig beachtete Studie des Center for Democracy and Technology über Urheberrechtsverletzungen im Internet, mit dem Titel "Protecting Copyright and Internet Values — A Balanced Path Forward". Ganz so “balanced” ist die Studie aus meiner Sicht allerdings nicht. Aus dem Abstract:

This paper seeks to outline a general framework for addressing the problem of copyright infringement on the Internet in a balanced fashion. In CDT’s view, a combination of robust enforcement of copyright law to make infringement unattractive and technical protections for online content offers the best possibility of fostering vibrant new markets for content delivery, consistent with innovation and the open architecture of the Internet.

Und weiter:

... (this) combination of legal protections to make infringement very unattractive and technical protections for online content offers the possibility of vibrant new markets for content delivery, consistent with the open architecture of the Internet.

To which I say: bollocks nonsense!

Digital Rights Management is designed for one single purpose: To take away the freedom to do something that would have been otherwsie possible (and very often legally and lawfully possible, I might add.) Tell me again why consumers should embrace this limiting of their freedom? It’s not about paying, if the price is right. It’s about not getting what consumers want, music and digital content that can be used in the way consumers want. (Which doesinclude making copies for the car radio, etc.) The study correctly realises that “[t]he keystone of a digital copyright solution is delivering content to consumers in the digital forms they crave, in ways that are attractive ... ”, but fails to draw the right conclusions.

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