The Hitchhiker was right...
Douglas Adams, back in 1979, knew that people would try to solve problems by calling them by a different name, but I don't think that even he would have expected this.
"It was impossible to turn it off, without comitting murder. This problem taxed the minds first of the cloning engineers, then of the priests, then of the letters page of the sidereal records straightener, and finally of the lawyers who experimented vainly with ways of redefining murder, re-evaluating it, and, in the end, even respelling it in the hope that no one would notice."
An exec (it always is) at HBO is trying to re-name DRM into something more positive sounding, and saying that it is actually in the benefit of the consumers. He is trying to call it, and now I'm quoting (because I don't have the time or energy to make shit up anymore), DCE:
Digital
Consumer
Enablement
WOW... He actually believes this. And, what's more frightening, other people, particularly the shareholders at Home Box Office, are probably going to believe him. The release has quotes like "enabling consumers to use their content as never before." Apparently, this guy has missed the entire discussion on DRM thus far, head under a rock - or up his ass - as the case may be. The problem with DRM has been the fact that people have been using it and the DMCA as a whole to LIMITING the previously (and still technically) legal ways of using copyrighted content. You can buy a CD or a DVD, sure, but if you want to play it in raw data form on some sort of portable media player like an iPod or a computer, they want you to pay extra.
This guy needs to get his terminology right. The proper meaning of DCE would be that it is the antithesis, removal, and destruction of DRM as a whole. Let us get back to the things that we could do - LEGALLY, I might add - with the shit we buy in the store before penny-horny marketers at all these big media houses got their hands on modern technology.
"It was impossible to turn it off, without comitting murder. This problem taxed the minds first of the cloning engineers, then of the priests, then of the letters page of the sidereal records straightener, and finally of the lawyers who experimented vainly with ways of redefining murder, re-evaluating it, and, in the end, even respelling it in the hope that no one would notice."
An exec (it always is) at HBO is trying to re-name DRM into something more positive sounding, and saying that it is actually in the benefit of the consumers. He is trying to call it, and now I'm quoting (because I don't have the time or energy to make shit up anymore), DCE:
Digital
Consumer
Enablement
WOW... He actually believes this. And, what's more frightening, other people, particularly the shareholders at Home Box Office, are probably going to believe him. The release has quotes like "enabling consumers to use their content as never before." Apparently, this guy has missed the entire discussion on DRM thus far, head under a rock - or up his ass - as the case may be. The problem with DRM has been the fact that people have been using it and the DMCA as a whole to LIMITING the previously (and still technically) legal ways of using copyrighted content. You can buy a CD or a DVD, sure, but if you want to play it in raw data form on some sort of portable media player like an iPod or a computer, they want you to pay extra.
This guy needs to get his terminology right. The proper meaning of DCE would be that it is the antithesis, removal, and destruction of DRM as a whole. Let us get back to the things that we could do - LEGALLY, I might add - with the shit we buy in the store before penny-horny marketers at all these big media houses got their hands on modern technology.