Privately, Hollywood admits DRM isn’t about piracy
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Ken Fisher has a good little piece over at Ars Technca about DRM. He's basically saying what we've all been saying for a while now. DRM isn't about piracy for Hollywood, it's about profit.
DRM is about nickle and diming away what used to be "fair-use". I won't repeat all of Fisher's arguments, but quite telling is his link to a Business Week article by Ron Grover. Grover quotes an anonymous Hollywood exec complaining that Apples DRM policies are already too lax, because you can authorize up to five devices on one iTunes account. Quoth the exec, "His [Steve Jobs] user rules scare the heck out of us." Why? Because I might lend my authorization to a friend? The way I might lend a DVD?
I've got more to write about DRM, maybe it's time for another long DRM rant, but not today. Lucky you.
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