- From: Joseph Lorenzo Hall <joe@cdt.org>
- Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 20:33:20 -0400
- To: John Foliot <john@foliot.ca>
- CC: 'Duncan Bayne' <dhgbayne@fastmail.fm>, public-restrictedmedia@w3.org
On Mon Jul 29 11:26:36 2013, John Foliot wrote: > Duncan Bayne wrote: >> >> Here's an example of how DRM allows content providers to do the exact >> opposite: charge people signficantly more than others, based on the >> country in which they reside. > > I don't see *any* example of DRM in this article, but rather of > "geo-blocking" by IP range, a common and long-standing practice that has > nothing to do with media encryption - the same practice can and is used > today to "tailor" the delivery of "ordinary" (text-based) web content. It is > something of a stretch to somehow associate this practice to media > encryption, but I understand how desperate some are to lay blame for all of > the ills of the internet at the feet of DRM. I had thought when I skimmed it the article also talked about DVD region encoding... but it sounds like I'm incorrect there. best, Joe -- Joseph Lorenzo Hall Senior Staff Technologist Center for Democracy & Technology 1634 I ST NW STE 1100 Washington DC 20006-4011 (p) 202-407-8825 (f) 202-637-0968 joe@cdt.org PGP: https://josephhall.org/gpg-key fingerprint: BE7E A889 7742 8773 301B 4FA1 C0E2 6D90 F257 77F8
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