We already know the answer, we just want to hear you say it.

[tarmle]

I've been catching up on videos from SXSW'06'The Future of Darknets' panel was certainly the most interesting thing here. For once, perhaps by accident, perhaps by design, IP dependants finally ended up in front of a room full of geeks who actually understand the technological, economic and social implications of DRM. It very quickly becomes

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[tarmle]

It was certainly boo-worthy. If he was joking it was totally misjudged. In either case it just demonstrates the content/DRM industries' utter disconnection from reality.

Glad you've found my meandering worthwhile. I think half my meagre audience came from that one post!

[tarmle]

I'm pretty sure that was just a troll in the audience, nobody of significance - he didn't show up in the videos, just a voice in background.

But still, hilarious pedantry!

[anonymous]

That is the point. The entertainment industry is not built on reason and logic, and never has been. The entire underpinnings of it, and how it works is all emotional. Entertainers work on your emotions. They control them through the medium. That is how they get you to pay them. Royalties or not, copyright or not, that won't change. It has never changed and it will never change. The sooner we all realize that, the sooner we can get rid of DRM and other copyright law abuses.

[tarmle]

An interesting way to look at it.

What we have now is a situation where these huge, cold, megalithic industries stand between the artists and us, doing nothing but leeching off that emotional link. At a corporate level it is unreasonable to suggest that they care about the music or the artists beyond the opportunity to make money out of them.

In the last century they offered a way, or the way, for artists to be heard, giving them access to the means of producing the physical media required to distribute their work to their audience. Now, that distribution-based model is dead (albiet livingdead), neither the audience nor the artists need them to distribute the work. They are scared, desperate to keep their business model alive at all cost, clawing at our attention with threats and messianic logic ("We are the Way, We are the Light, follow us and you shall have Plenty, stray from the Path and feel Our Wrath