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Mike Masnick gives an interesting reply on Viacom Boss

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 08:33:31 GMT

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clipper's remarks: it is also the comments this blog received that make it fascinating

DRM and watermarking:

it's only made the problem worse and pissed off a bunch of folks by treating them as criminals. Limiting what people can do and treating them like criminals diminishes value, rather than increases it.

Spurring creative output:

We're already in an unprecedented period of creative output

it isn't because of copy protection and watermarking, but because of increasingly simple tools for content creation, promotion and distribution -- all of which are held back by things like DRM and watermarking.

Easy copying and distribution seen as a problem:

most people who recognize that they're selling benefits, not products, having the cost of production and distribution drop to virtually zero would be seen as an opportunity, not a problem.

Supporting ISP plans to filter traffic

filtering effort starts blocking perfectly legitimate content. It's also not clear how AT&T determines what is and what is not infringing content.

Against net neutrality

would hamper anti-piracy efforts

Tags: copywrite, drm, intellectual property rights, piracy

Viacom chief comments

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 08:07:56 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Viacom chief is protecting artists and creative people, sorry, compensating?

Clip Source: www.news.com

Content creators and their digital distributors must unite against piracy by installing more "safeguards," Viacom's CEO said Tuesday.

Through more widespread adoption of copy-protection features and filtering tools like watermarking,

"all manner of intellectual property" can now be reproduced more easily than ever "at the click of the mouse."

the "artists" behind the content are fairly compensated.

content aggregators, Internet service providers, hosting companies and site operators themselves need to help in the fight against piracy, he said,

several cable companies have already begun working "cooperatively" with Viacom

Viacom doesn't need is new laws,

Letting the free market operate unfettered would be wiser, he added.

He also said his company's high-profile copyright suit against Google's YouTube filed earlier this year "promises to be a landmark case that will clarify the rights and responsibilities of all media and content owners in the digital age."

Tags: copywrite, drm, intellectual property rights, media

Watermarking to replace DRM?

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 08:00:55 GMT

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clipper's remarks: interesting area requiring a lot of new work

Clip Source: blogs.cnet.com

The idea: whenever a watermarked file is played on an ActiveNow-enabled device, the service could dynamically insert some sort of advertising--presumably audio, but perhaps video or text depending on the device being used.

I could see watermarking eventually taking the place of DRM, which is both ineffective and alienating to consumers

Instead of trying to prevent users from copying and sharing audio files, content owners could simply trace the paths of these files, then establish some sort of remuneration system. Activated Content's idea of dynamic advertising is interesting, but it seems more reasonable to me to build some sort of pooled payment system

Tags: drm, piracy, intellectual property rights