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The digital age of information is not yet a done dealand copyright is not the only potential “block”
DRMSlide2
Ugly but telling example
Orwell, Kindle, and Amazon
In a move that
angered customers
and generated waves of online pique,
Amazon
remotely deleted some digital editions of the books from the
Kindle
devices of readers who had bought them.
An Amazon spokesman, Drew
Herdener
, said in an e-mail message that the books were added to the Kindle store by a company that did not have rights to them, using a self-service function. “When we were notified of this by the rights holder, we removed the illegal copies from our systems and from customers’ devices, and refunded customers,” he said.
Amazon effectively acknowledged that the deletions were a bad idea. “We are changing our systems so that in the future we will not remove books from customers’ devices in these circumstances,” Mr.
Herdener
said.Slide3
book modification
Although Claire wrote:
“One response to this has been the rise of technological protection measures (TPM), so-called Digital Rights Management technologies. Digital Rights Management, or DRM, is a technology that enforces a restriction on the use of content after it passes into the hands of the user.”
I'd just as soon not limit DRM to “after it passes into the hands of the user” because in the future we are going to see many of these that don’t allow material to get that far and still act to manage digital rights.Slide4
who’s digital rights managed?
the IP ownership rights of the legal rights owner
the schemes don’t protect the digital rights of users.
Although, big content holders say that the measures protect consumers from breaking the law without knowing it, and/or dissuade them from trying as they would if doing so were easy. Slide5
places/ways to exert control
the physical layer
your
cd/dvd
will not engage at all with/in certain devices
in order to get the “last mile” in a fiber system, we might go to wireless relays that could control access
log on technologies of many sorts
the code layer
encryption issues
proprietary platform issues
net neutrality issues
the content layer
“traditional” DRM speed bumps
watermarks
flagsSlide6
strength of control/applied to what functions?
strong
everything you have to the single use we allow. (
dvd
)
moderate
everything you have to multiple uses we allow (
e.g.,downloaded
music)
only some aspects of the thing you have, to single uses (
e.g.,downloaded
movies--free watching, no copying/transfer)
weak
not everything you have and only in some uses. (version file conversions; free play music over networks, etc.)Slide7
in this corner: Pro-drm
if you don’t lock it up, they'll steal it.
user rights? we think users have way fewer rights than they think they do or than they actually do.
audio
cds
can be protected (sort of)
DRM is strongly supported by the DMCA and further extension of it is hotly pursued by big media AND big software.
CSS (and other schemes) lock
dvds
Universal City Studios, Inc.
v
.
Reimerdes
, 2001
321 Studios, 2004
loads of folks zero in here with the need for the lock down, ways to do it, and money to be made by doing it.Slide8
drm is HUGE business
“Windows Media Digital Rights Management (DRM) is a proven platform to protect and securely deliver content for playback on computers, portable devices, and network devices. The latest version offers increased flexibility to support a wide range of business models that provide consumers even greater access to protected audio and video content.”
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/forpros/drm/default.mspx
Digital rights Management Standards News from DMR watch
http://www.drmwatch.com/standards/
RIAA, MPAA, Software Associations, all want better/moreSlide9
in this corner: con DRM
con: locking it up is often an excessive intrusion on user rights.
con: don't blame users for the lack of user law and don't limit their fair use rights because of that void
con:
rootkit
fiasco . . . generally,
drm
doesn’t work and often violates user rights
neutral but true: No widely distributed DRM scheme has yet actually defeated determined users
DeCSS
(and other such schemes) unlock them
DVD rip studio or others: the stuff is like mushrooms
Apple gave up
FTC cautions about how it’s done
loads of folks are "
agin
it"
Creative commons
EFF <http://
www.eff.org/issues/drm
>
ALASlide10
some of the battlegrounds
downloaded music:
pro:
fairplay
, WMA,
PlaysForSure
, services (ruckus—
oopppss
--,
napster
2.0)
con:
napster
1.0,
grokster
,
limewire
and a zillion others
Digital TV:
pay for services restrictions
broadcast flag restrictions
interoperability restrictions
Nasty implications of “total” cloud or MS-provided computingSlide11
some of the battlegrounds
analog hole
initially a TV issue, but actually has applicability to all media. Blocking analog to digital conversion interoperability.
conversion to digital (starts with TV)
again, all media are implicated here as if it's digital, it can be (potentially) controlled, maybe.
Software
Anti-piracy/copying/mass production/duplication
Interoperability in all mediums
Virtual World content
Cryptography
Others
that I didn’t think of?Slide12
Some new aspects
Logo, Copyright Notice and Link on Web Site Constitute "Copyright Management Information" under
DMCA
Court: breaking DRM for a "fair use" is legal
Court rules copying your own DVD’s is
illegal
Big Content: ludicrous to expect DRMed music to work forever