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european copyright extension from 50 to 95 years

2009-03-11T20:24:48Z

The europeans are on it again,
[link]
spread the news.

QED (DRM)

2008-05-18T12:01:33Z

Hi,
warum DRM bekämpfen? Ich finde dieser Vorfall demonstriert das ziemlich
eindeutig: [link]
Cheers,
Florian

Re: so nobody cares about DRM?

2008-01-09T10:51:08Z

My guess is never. They'll keep inventing one DRM encumbered format after
the other, because there's nothing forcing them to abandon this silly quest.
That is, unless we, the customers, explain to them, in law, that we don't
like this kind of stuff, that we think we'd have better, cheaper and more
versataile content without it, and that we won't tollerate silly ideologies

Re: so nobody cares about DRM?

2008-01-08T15:48:57Z

And now Sony has its own DRM-free music "system":

[link]

It's quite pathetic, actually.

So, the good news is that the majors are starting to understand that
DRM is a bad thing. The bad news is that they still don't understand

Re: What do we do now with the signatures?

2008-01-08T08:43:39Z

Just send them to me, blank is ok (we're not going to verify them anyway)

Re: What do we do now with the signatures?

2008-01-07T14:45:54Z

and if we send it to you: would you like them verified or just blank.

PS: Ebenfalls äs guets Neus

Aaron Riedener

What do we do now with the signatures?

2008-01-06T22:50:59Z

I've received a dozen of forms with 43 signatures. Since we will not
manage to get the 50'000, I suppose it's time to end the collect.

- What should I do with the signatures? Recycle the paper or send them
to Florian?

- Florian, when are you going to change the web site?

BTW, the wiki is now the target of Chinese spammers... I've deleted

Re: so nobody cares about DRM?

2008-01-06T18:42:01Z

I didn't miss your point, I'm just pointing out to you that when they say:
"yeah our customers love DRM free and we're going to give it to them!" what
they mean is:
"until we've figured out how to screw you over better, we'll play Mr. nice
guy."
and what they do is: _Everybody_ except Apple and Amazon have to continue to

Re: so nobody cares about DRM?

2008-01-06T16:32:02Z

Just in case you missed my point: they apparently think it's a good
idea to market their stuff as being DRM-free. To me, that means that a
lot of their customers are aware of what DRM is and why they should
reject it.

Re: status

2008-01-06T16:17:06Z

Florian,

Most of your post is about business models, politics and such. That's
the interesting stuff and that's where I have some disagreements with
you.
I only managed to find these technological issues:

Indeed, that's quite obvious and the whole point of DRM. Does one
really need a technological background to understand that?

Re: so nobody cares about DRM?

2008-01-04T23:22:34Z

Another one of the best arguments why this law isn't required, and may turn
out to be quite harmfull. Now that the market is self-regulating a new law
encouraging the wrong thing comes into effect.
Despite that good news, which is a few days old btw. it's not all nice now.
I'll explain to you why.
1) If you want, as a enterprenteur, to create a music store and sell DRM

Re: status

2008-01-04T23:07:06Z

Yes you've missed a lot actually.
You do know that there's a trusted computing initiative and what they do of
course. Now if you combine trusted computing hardware with DRM you have a
consumer unfriendly ecosystem of content and devices, that's quite obvious
to see, and is easely demonstrated by say, HD monitors and HD content from

so nobody cares about DRM?

2008-01-04T20:26:02Z

in the news this week:

"Consumers want flexibility with respect to what they can do with
music once they purchase it, and we want them to have that
flexibility, which is why we're pleased to offer our artists' music on
Amazon MP3," said Michael Nash, senior vice president, digital
strategy and business development for Warner Music Group.

Re: status

2008-01-04T19:21:08Z

Guess what? I'm not convinced.

But first, isn't it time to stop telling people to send us signatures?
I'll keep updating the status page but, if there's no plan to do
anything with those signatures, I think we should tell people that
there's no point in sending them (and remove our addresses so as to

Re: status

2008-01-04T00:26:46Z

I think it can be done, but it is way more difficult. Everybody thinks
he/she's an expert, when it comes to taxes, naturalization, or even
GMOs or nuclear power plants. Because everybody has heard about it at
least once in their life. Almost nobody knows what DRM is (in the
general population). That's all I was saying. Just try to imagine