Re: HTML5 and DRM - A Middle Path?

> I personally like the Netflix service and use it regularly.  I do not expect that Netflix could continue to operate that useful service 
> if I were able to store and replay any movie on my local disks and share them with others without paying the artists or service 
> providers (as I could and would if DRM didn't exist).  I therefore support the need for *some forms of DRM in some contexts* 
> because I do not see alternative economic models capable of allowing for those types of services without DRM.

That argument is an example of argument from incredulity (
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Argument_from_incredulity ) - specifically,
argument from personal incredulity.

Also, to quote Heinlein:

"There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the
notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the
public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged
with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the
face of changing circumstances and contrary to public interest. This
strange doctrine is not supported by statute or common law. Neither
individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask
that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back."

True, W3C is neither a Government nor a Court.  But I don't think that
its role is to protect business models that have been rendered
irrelevant by technological changes.

I have this image in my mind of a World Wide Automobile Consortium being
asked by buggy manufacturers to limit the top speed of their cars to
10km/h in order to avoid rendering buggy makers insolvent.

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Received on Friday, 16 August 2013 04:06:05 UTC