next up..panel discussing DRM in practice: rights, restrictions and reality.
cory doctorow, dan gilmor; joe kraus, wendy seltzer, benny wong
DRM - digital "restrictions" management - as always jack valenti is discussed within the first 5 minutes! and is referred to as charming again! what is it with this guy!
Joe Kraus - digitalconsumers.org
represents the general consumer in what he thought was a debate dominated by hollywood and government - fulltime lobbying group in washington. hollywood spent 40million on lobbying with the tagline "do you believe in theft or not". suggests that silicon valley is in its political teenage years ie. it has a leave me alone, "we" make decisions on facts way of thinking which is a real cultural mismatch with the political decision makers.
DRM (including legislation - DCMA) is having an impact on innovation - if the existing environment was in place years ago we would not have the fax machine, copying machine et al.
wendy seltzer - eff
legal
digital restrictions management - this is not about what you can do it is about what you can't do as a creator. restrictions creeping in at all levels - media, devices and now even networks. having trouble keeping her presentation clear in my head...will try and translate later.
i can't wait for this audience to get going on this subject...
wendy is really struggling...seems very intimidated by the audience...
buddy wong - xbox hacker - he is at the coal face of dcma because of his hack on the xbox
palladium - %^$£"* scary stuff...*must pay more attention*
cory:
articulate as ever
napster in 2 years build the largest creative library ever built. - they burnt it down but the next day it grew again...cool
drm - is the answer to the question that we shouldn't be asking...that question is how do we burn down the library of alexander for good (earlier used library metaphor to describe napster)
I sense a t-shirt in the making "why do we want to burn the library"
questions:
encumbants vs innovators -
we need to focus on the things we know about...the dampening effect on innovation.
pn. connections/distributablity is key to value of work...more barriers to distribution then more difficult to gain value
q. what can we do in the entertainment industry - we need to develop the easy way for non geek folks to set up micro payments.
cory - stop doing what you are doing. go to the lobbiests and tell them that the broadcast flag is wrong.
as always it seems the law is a central barrier...it is so complex to get clearance for material. if the same efforts that went into getting the dcma in place were spent on simplifying laws and finding alternative business plans then we would be in a much better place.
I think people must still be a bit sleepy cos this discussion is a bit -....ooh...this just go interesting...a very articulate individual arguing for rights holding...and he is wearing a very cool bowler hat! - he wants to be able to develop business plans that explicity define his rights and the relationship with his consumer.