DRM Helmets: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
from the a-modest-proposal dept
Gordon Mohr's latest "modest proposal" written up for O'Reilly is an instant classic. He's come up with the perfect solution to the entertainment industry's problems. He's proposing that everyone be force fitted with a DRM helmet that will automatically "fog up" if the wearer is looking at or listening to any type of content that he or she does not have a license to. It's the best solution I've heard so far.
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Yearning for Woody Guthrie
Pete Seeger, June 1967:
When Woody Guthrie was singing hillbilly songs on a little Los Angeles radio station in the late 1930s, he used to mail out a small mimeographed songbook to listeners who wanted the words to his songs, On the bottom of one page appeared the following: "This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright # 154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don't give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that's all we wanted to do." W.G.
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Instant classic alright...
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DRM Helmets
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Re: DRM Helmets
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Litigation America vs MPAA
Litigation America vs MPAA. Maybe they will cancel each other out?
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I guess even then it would be possible, but I bet it would substantially curb piracy and innovation and freedom and all the other stuff that the MPAA / RIAA fear.
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The real solution
All bank accounts must be on that bank, and all citizens must have an account on that bank.
Then, every month you have to prove, minute by minute, that you did not listen to any owned song, that you did not see any owned movie, that you did not read any owned lyric and were not told any owned story. For each minute of non-infringement you can prove, you can get up to $2 of your money back.
All the money you can't get back is transferred, at the end of the month, to the RIAA & co's own coffers.
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