The Copyright Crusade
from the so-it-goes dept
Peter F Bradshaw writes "A paper, from a consultant to the film and music industries, details the type of thinking (warning: pdf file) with regards to such issues as file sharing, the DMCA and Digital Rights Management (DRM). Included are such gems as: "DRM's most effective use will be to educate people as to what their legal rights and restrictions actually are...." and: "Moreover, DRM has the greatest odds of being effective if it is introduced subtly, so as not to present an obvious target...." It also discusses why these industries badly want to convert your general purpose computer into a purpose built media player via the CBDTPA bill even though the user may have never performed a copyright violation. I bleieve that this document gives a good road map of what we can expect to hear from the medai industries in the future." I'm not sure how old this paper is (Viant, themselves a struggling shell of what they used to be in the dot com days, recently got purchased). The document is 75 pages, so it's not a quick read, but it does look interesting.
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