Re:Save Firefox
by marcosdumay on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @07:19PM
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The problem is that DRM is incompatible with an open computer, and leads us to the situation we are on mobile, where users can't control their computers at all.
Content producers have the right to rent their content. They just don't have the right to cripple the entire economy and everybody's infosec doing so.
> but the case of renting a newly released movie does to seem different
Why? Genuine question.
DRM doesn't save new movies from piracy - new releases still hit the public torrent sites extremely quickly (sometimes before release).
And I don't understand what CC has to do with DRM. One is an intellectual property license, the other is a bucket of suck that categorically cannot work if users are to be allowed control their own machines.
I don't think it's really different. I don't think DRM have ever prevented any content from being freely available on the internet, they merely annoy legitimate users who paid for it (or would have paid for it if the content had been readable on their system)
I was the featured Creative Commoner many years ago, and I appreciate a world where Creative Commons licenses are used and mostly libre software is used, but while I can afford to release a book under CC, which I have done a few times, a movie studio that drops 100M making a film can not use CC.