Re:Tim Berners-Lee just gave us an opening to stop DRM in We...
by JustSomeNobody on Friday October 07, 2016 @09:15AM
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Is fixing "casual piracy" even going to make a dent in their spreadsheet? I doubt it.
Re:Tim Berners-Lee just gave us an opening to stop DRM in We...
by clarry on Friday October 07, 2016 @05:52PM
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Such "casual piracy" is legal in my country, at least when it comes to music (and we pay for the priviledge, unfortunately). Publishers shouldn't mess with my rights.
If you actually listen to any of the arguments being made on the W3C mailing lists, none of the pro-DRM sides have actually argued such an absolute stance, because they're not stupid and can see DRM regularly getting broken. The argument primarily centres on "casual piracy"—some technically illiterate user sending a copy of "something fun" to their friends—and not on eliminating piracy or preventing third parties from using your work.