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Message started by Oldfeller on 01/11/14 at 00:05:41

Title: Digital Rights Management and you
Post by Oldfeller on 01/11/14 at 00:05:41

Digital Rights Management is something that is coming to your computer and your phone and all your other devices.

It is intended to protect the creator of an "electronic software based something" from use from folks who haven't paid for that privilege.

Issue is that it doesn't work well or smoothly and that it requires constant fiddling to keep it working at all.

DRM will get in the way of you viewing a free movie from Amazon, since Amazon apparently doesn't really get that they have to keep their DRM tuned for a whole variety of use methods.

Amazon instituted DRM and unleashed a big furball of issues with their service.

In response to the furball Amazon has dropped back to only supporting vanilla I-OS and vanilla MS (current versions only) and of course their Kindle Fire products. This is a choice Amazon is now making and they will pay for their lazy choice by having irate customers leaving their service.

Microsoft will certainly use DRM to keep you from using their products except strictly according to the limited license. They have never had this ability before and just about all of us have stretched the MS's license in some fashion over the years. People expect this from MS, but now may find themselves held strictly to the letter of the agreement.

They don't expect it from the little incidental guys, but it is coming.

Example, Novell is going on the selling block soon as they are about bankrupt. A patent troll buys the corpse of Novell and then starts tracking all the folks using the various drivers and bits and pieces to collect evidence of existing use. Then they push a DRM'd update out and let it settle into place, then trigger it at a license cost of $1,000 per customer per year.

Novell is EVERYWHERE in business and although Novell was very open over the years and permitted such things to expand through the ecosystem the new troll owner may not be so friendly.

This is a simple example that hopefully will never happen.

But I have seen Amazon totally screw themselves up just trying to use DRM to protect streaming of some videos that they are giving away for free.

DRM will be cursed by you sometimes in the next year as you stumble across it not working out as intended by the folks trying to use it.

:)

Good luck, you may need it.

Title: Re: Digital Rights Management and you
Post by Pine on 01/13/14 at 07:34:08

Ummmm

I have been hating on DRM for years now.

Title: Re: Digital Rights Management and you
Post by engineer on 01/13/14 at 07:43:53

Guess I'll keep my old computer and the old software on it.

Title: Re: Digital Rights Management and you
Post by Oldfeller on 01/13/14 at 07:59:20

Ever plan to watch a streaming movie or play a new game on that old machine?

DRM is gonna getcha for sure if you use old hardware/software because your old software/hardware can't talk back to them when the newly installed softbit tries to run.

If it can't talk the lingo, it can't say that new DMR'd softbit is kosher to run.

Gaming servers and streaming servers will shut you down within 15 seconds if they don't get a correct verification response back from your machine.

You'll see. MS is gonna teach the world how to bleed their customer base on a regular basis, MS style.

Title: Re: Digital Rights Management and you
Post by Pine on 01/13/14 at 09:48:28

1330383A393030392E5C0 wrote:

dont blame MS... blame RIAA

Title: Re: Digital Rights Management and you
Post by Oldfeller on 01/14/14 at 06:37:27

DRM in the music industry was bad enough, but MS is teaching the software folks in the computer industry how to use it selectively.

Amazon for example is perhaps using it for "competitive purposes" (stupidly, perhaps) but DRM is now a tool with many uses .... and many potential misuses.

Using DRM technology you can selectively lock down certain users -- whereas before you could not.

The computer "freedoms" that have been enjoyed by many are likely going to get curtailed by those who own the rights to programs, drivers, etc. etc. and who suddenly decide it is going to cost you $xxx to use their product.

Patent trolls no longer have to buy it cheap then sue somebody to get a return on the investment -- now they can be upscale DRM trolls with the same old software purchases.

Before, it was only worth while to go after corporations with the lawsuit trick, now separate individuals can be coerced into paying some money.

>:(

Title: Re: Digital Rights Management and you
Post by Pine on 01/14/14 at 08:37:18

You know.. speaking of which... I just put 2 and 2 together. i am a BIG user of newegg... as in some years they get 50% of my entertainment money. Seems they just won a SUPREME COURT patent case ... operative word.. Patent Troll

http://www.itbusinessnet.com/article/Newegg-Wins:-Supreme-Court-Declares-Game-Over-for-Soverain-Shopping-Cart-Patents--3006821