- From: Karl Dubost <karl@la-grange.net>
- Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 13:19:12 -0400
- To: "piranna@gmail.com" <piranna@gmail.com>
- Cc: Mark Watson <watsonm@netflix.com>, public-restrictedmedia@w3.org, Brendan Aragorn <gloppius@yahoo.com>, "B. Ross Ashley" <brashley46@tfnet.ca>, dan@dandart.co.uk
Le 13 mai 2013 à 12:31, piranna@gmail.com a écrit : > fact is that this kind of restrictions are not from a technical point of view but from a bussiness model, and just for this reason, not only sooner or later it will be broken or evited The streaming scenario pushed forward by _some_ content owners through content distributors (netflix for example) is taken from the "performance metaphor", which is happening in different circumstances and contexts # Unique performance (each of those being different than the previous one even if very similar, emotional physical contact) * a play at the theater * a music concert # Performance in a enhancing setup. (big screen, comfort of viewing) * movie theater The streaming business has happened in the past with radio and television, with outrage of content owners when the K7 and the VHS have been created. We can note that it didn't kill their business, but it's secondary. If DRM in streaming goes forward, there will be systems to go around. The simplest mechanism will be a camera in front of the screens, as already done (illegaly) in movie theaters. So currently, some content owners are blackmailing content distributors, which in return are trying very hard to push for systems that will help satisfy the requirements of content owners against the experience of users and the market. The thing which is bad in all of this, is that we will have waste the time of plenty of engineers, of people loving work of art on a broken system, which is not working in the new market realities, when we could spend an interesting time on developing solutions for making payments and transactions of value easier online. Aka facilitating the monetization instead of making harder the consumption. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-scarcity_economy -- Karl Dubost http://www.la-grange.net/karl/
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