<story><title>EFF Makes Formal Objection to DRM in HTML5</title><url>https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-makes-formal-objection-drm-html5</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>johnvschmitt</author><text>Good for EFF.  DRM is futile.&lt;p&gt;There is NO stopping people from recording what&apos;s on their screen (with a cell phone camera among other devices).&lt;p&gt;What we&apos;ve seen is:&lt;p&gt;A)  The more barriers you put in front of legitimate use, the more you see illegitimate use grow.&lt;p&gt;B)  The EFF is rock solid in standing up &amp;#38; protecting our rights &amp;#38; values in the modern, internet, connected age.  Please help fund them.&lt;p&gt;Meaning:  DRM all you want.  Make it so that you can ONLY see Game of Thrones if you pay $100,000!!!  Great!  And, imagine how long it&apos;d take for a copy (lower fidelity, sure) to get in the hands of a larger audience that you can&apos;t control, who doesn&apos;t like you, who you collect no $ from.&lt;p&gt;Or:  Drop DRM, &amp;#38; go for &quot;iTunes or Netflix&quot; or other distribution methods that are EASY &amp;#38; fair.  Watch your revenue boom, while you collect user stats to make your next content even more appealing &amp;#38; marketable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ihsw</author><text>DRM isn&apos;t about stopping piracy and it never was. Don&apos;t get confused, it&apos;s not about consumers of content -- it&apos;s about &lt;i&gt;distributors&lt;/i&gt; of content. It&apos;s to maintain control over who distributes what content, for how long, to whom, and at what price.&lt;p&gt;The laws restricting consumption of content are few and far, however the laws restricting &lt;i&gt;distribution&lt;/i&gt; of content are many and broad-sweeping.</text></comment>
<story><title>EFF Makes Formal Objection to DRM in HTML5</title><url>https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-makes-formal-objection-drm-html5</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>johnvschmitt</author><text>Good for EFF.  DRM is futile.&lt;p&gt;There is NO stopping people from recording what&apos;s on their screen (with a cell phone camera among other devices).&lt;p&gt;What we&apos;ve seen is:&lt;p&gt;A)  The more barriers you put in front of legitimate use, the more you see illegitimate use grow.&lt;p&gt;B)  The EFF is rock solid in standing up &amp;#38; protecting our rights &amp;#38; values in the modern, internet, connected age.  Please help fund them.&lt;p&gt;Meaning:  DRM all you want.  Make it so that you can ONLY see Game of Thrones if you pay $100,000!!!  Great!  And, imagine how long it&apos;d take for a copy (lower fidelity, sure) to get in the hands of a larger audience that you can&apos;t control, who doesn&apos;t like you, who you collect no $ from.&lt;p&gt;Or:  Drop DRM, &amp;#38; go for &quot;iTunes or Netflix&quot; or other distribution methods that are EASY &amp;#38; fair.  Watch your revenue boom, while you collect user stats to make your next content even more appealing &amp;#38; marketable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>biot</author><text>HBO should have a Kickstarter campaign for each episode of Game of Thrones. Donate any amount you want, and if the total funds raised is $75 million (or whatever HBO determines is the expected sales figure of the one episode for the next 25 years), HBO releases the DRM-free episode for free to everyone who wants a copy.&lt;p&gt;If the amount isn&apos;t reached, then the episode is never released. Repeat the process for each successive episode in each season.</text></comment>