Comments on: Four Pillars: EAI and DRM http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2006/06/13/four-pillars-eai-and-drm/ a blog about information Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:37:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Kris Tuttle http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2006/06/13/four-pillars-eai-and-drm/comment-page-1/#comment-802 Kris Tuttle Wed, 14 Jun 2006 07:57:11 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2006/06/13/four-pillars-eai-and-drm/#comment-802 This is a great post. You captured the crux of this issue. I was amazed last year at the Web 2.0 confereence in SF when teenagers were interviewed. They had thousands of songs on their iPods and they hadn't paid for any. In many casees they paid a great deal for ringtones and games for their cell phones because they were not able to get them any other way. It is indeed a generation that will not put up with heavy DRM restrictions that tie content you already paid for to one device. Maybe tiered pricing will emerge but everyone is very scared of the media companies and what they will do in order to extract money from the user. Even little things like not being able to skip sections of a DVD are extremely annoying. Since foods are forced to label things for health reasons maybe there should be a common label forced on the entertainment industry that describes the basic terms of use for the content you are buying. Ratings could be "Content can be copied to other devices." "Content can be copied for personal use but not disributed" "Content rights can be transfered simply and easily to another person." "Content can be converted into any other format for personal use." Something like this. Very good post. This is a great post. You captured the crux of this issue. I was amazed last year at the Web 2.0 confereence in SF when teenagers were interviewed. They had thousands of songs on their iPods and they hadn’t paid for any.

In many casees they paid a great deal for ringtones and games for their cell phones because they were not able to get them any other way.

It is indeed a generation that will not put up with heavy DRM restrictions that tie content you already paid for to one device. Maybe tiered pricing will emerge but everyone is very scared of the media companies and what they will do in order to extract money from the user.

Even little things like not being able to skip sections of a DVD are extremely annoying.

Since foods are forced to label things for health reasons maybe there should be a common label forced on the entertainment industry that describes the basic terms of use for the content you are buying. Ratings could be “Content can be copied to other devices.” “Content can be copied for personal use but not disributed” “Content rights can be transfered simply and easily to another person.” “Content can be converted into any other format for personal use.” Something like this.

Very good post.

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