Thread: Nokia only manufacturer without 'kill switch'?
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mmurfin87 is offline mmurfin87
2010-06-26 , 18:15
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Originally Posted by wmarone View Post
Considering it imposes restrictions and no real rights, I don't see the need to expand the acronym. "Digital Restrictions Management" is equally applicable.
That would also be an apt description.


Originally Posted by wmarone View Post
Well, the essential -tools- in question are that of encryption and key management. I have no problems with those so long as they're under the control of the user. DRM is deliberately outside the control of the user, whom the vendor sees as a hostile entity to be protected against.
True there are many vendors who consider users as hostile foreign entities. DRM by itself doesn't have to make them as such. Proper DRM could also be used to give rights to the user and restrict the ability of vendors to do certain things in the same way it restricts users. This contains some elements of the control you talk about. I agree users do need control.


Originally Posted by wmarone View Post
Well, that's -your- opinion of a perfect DRM system. I'm sure the RIAA and MPAA's vision of a perfect DRM system is much more draconian and much, much more likely (since they can throw money at it.)
Certainly RIAA and MPAA have a vision and a strategy of an ecosystem in which DRM is used restrictively according to their desires. I think the DRM system I dream of is also dreamed of by those organizations, although the restrictions and rights we would both put into place are polar opposites.


Originally Posted by wmarone View Post
The deal here, of course, is that you have no real say in the matter. They will not push for the middle of the road system you described. And if you think they will, you have far, far too much trust in organizations whose sole goal is to earn money.
The idea basically is that I'm trying to remove all the "evilness" of DRM and put it on the people who use it. Similar to "guns don't kill people, people do."

Its a rule, though, that everyone believes that perfect DRM would be DRM that allows people to do all of and only what they should be able to do.

Whether its the RIAA restricting music piracy, or end users restricting vendor kill switches, DRM can be useful. Furthermore I don't think its diametrically opposed to open source.

Originally Posted by wmarone View Post
Man, I'm highly amused at all the pro-DRM arguments on a forum centered on a (mostly) open source phone OS.
I'm not so much "pro-DRM" as I am "anti-anti-DRM".
 

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