The BIG DRM (digital rights management) mistake
What are the lessons to learn from DRM?
Customers have paid for the texts/pictures/music/movies they purchased, and they expect to be able to use them as they’d like. You can argue that they’re not really buying the content, they’re just buying licenses for that content, but that argument, while technically legal, is facile and doesn’t take into account how real human beings think. When a normal person buys a song, he considers it his … after all, he just paid for it!
Intelligent people can disagree about the economic impact of file sharing – it seems pretty clear to me that it actually encourages sales and awareness of movies, music, and other content – but that’s not what I’m talking about here.… Read More...