[advocacy] DRM in OGG - A Proposal

[Daniel James]

> The courts decided that yes, you do have the right to   make copies for use
> at a later time, and yes you have the right to view/listen to copyrighted
> material you have purchased in any format you can put the material in.

Again, these are not global rights, and laws such as DMCA negate any rights 
for future media formats. There's little point in asserting legal rights 
which you are prevented from carrying out by the same body of law.

Fortunately, I think Palladium will be extremely unpopular with end users and 
will jeopardise sales of the Pentium 5 or 6, or whatever. I suspect rival 
chip makers will produce non-DRM devices that will be the final blow to the 
PC design.

But that still leaves the orginal problem: how do we align artist and listener 
interests and promote a free audio format? So far, I don't believe anyone has 
come up with a better proposal than the implementation of ISRC tagging 
already in the Vorbis spec.

Maybe the ISRC tag would have to be signed somehow, to help establish 
authenticity. But changing a tag could only benefit another ISRC member, who 
would then be banned from the system. Signing could be a mark of quality 
though - using encryption for a positive purpose would mean there was little 
point in breaking it.
 
Cheers

Daniel
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