<story><title>Yes, All DRM</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/05/yes-all-drm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>strictnein</author><text>Steam, Netflix, Spotify, etc show that DRM can work properly when users are given the easy access to the media&amp;#x2F;content, and they&amp;#x27;ve been a boon to content creators as well.&lt;p&gt;And, no, none of those sites using DRM are &amp;quot;a danger to our rights and our security&amp;quot; as the article breathlessly claims.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m sure it&amp;#x27;s not a popular opinion around here, but I used to be a donor to the EFF and no longer am. I feel they&amp;#x27;ve gone off the deep end on too many issues and they&amp;#x27;re increasingly using hyperbole and hysteria to make arguments against relatively small issues. I mean, come on:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &amp;quot;That proposition ranges from unpalatable on a gaming console, to repulsive on laptops and phones loaded with sensors and personal info&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Repulsive? With those scary &amp;quot;sensors&amp;quot; sensing things and you know what happens when DRM and sensors get together!?! Oh, that&amp;#x27;s right, nothing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mavrc</author><text>&amp;gt; Steam, Netflix, Spotify&lt;p&gt;I use and enjoy all of these things but the DRM they include isn&amp;#x27;t why they are successful - it&amp;#x27;s the fact that they make it so much easier to deliver content to anyone, immediately, bypassing the normal &amp;#x27;store shelves&amp;#x27; systems of distribution. (well, as long as you&amp;#x27;re in North America or some parts of Europe.)&lt;p&gt;While I agree that the EFF&amp;#x27;s message is often more reactionary than necessary, the DRM in these services serves no purpose except to make to provide a placebo to traditional commercial content owners, to get the content on those services. Ultimately, this is only a placebo. Netflix exclusives appear on the Pirate Bay minutes or hours after they go up on the service. Yet Netflix not only survives, but thrives - to such a degree that people use VPNs to circumvent the region locks, not the payment system.&lt;p&gt;How many years has it been since iTunes music went DRM-free? Yet it&amp;#x27;s the most popular means of acquiring paid-for music. Build a successful distribution system, make it available to everyone, and people will pay for content.</text></comment>
<story><title>Yes, All DRM</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/05/yes-all-drm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>strictnein</author><text>Steam, Netflix, Spotify, etc show that DRM can work properly when users are given the easy access to the media&amp;#x2F;content, and they&amp;#x27;ve been a boon to content creators as well.&lt;p&gt;And, no, none of those sites using DRM are &amp;quot;a danger to our rights and our security&amp;quot; as the article breathlessly claims.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m sure it&amp;#x27;s not a popular opinion around here, but I used to be a donor to the EFF and no longer am. I feel they&amp;#x27;ve gone off the deep end on too many issues and they&amp;#x27;re increasingly using hyperbole and hysteria to make arguments against relatively small issues. I mean, come on:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &amp;quot;That proposition ranges from unpalatable on a gaming console, to repulsive on laptops and phones loaded with sensors and personal info&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Repulsive? With those scary &amp;quot;sensors&amp;quot; sensing things and you know what happens when DRM and sensors get together!?! Oh, that&amp;#x27;s right, nothing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>muddi900</author><text>Can you use Spotify with you iPod classic? Can you  iTunes movie work on your Android phone?&lt;p&gt;At some point,  corporations convinced consumers that buying a whole service contract everytime you play a song is more convenient than just playing a song.&lt;p&gt;Also,  phone sensors contain vital biometric data that the user has no access to.The repulsive thing that happens is that the device is locking your information from you. This is spreading out in other industries like autombiles and medical devices. Now you will have to buy a whole new service contract everytime you drive a car or check your blood pressure. So convenient.</text></comment>