Comments on: Viacom chief: We're sticking with DRM

Media conglomerate's head says antipiracy efforts "will usher in an unprecedented period of creative output across the globe."

Sure, comrade
by nicmart October 2, 2007 8:50 AM PDT: Dauman: we will usher in an unprecedented period of creative
output across the globe,"

Sure, just like the Sovet Union ushered in peace and prosperity.; Like this Reply to this comment

They can stick with it...

by NickH October 2, 2007 8:55 AM PDT

But I'll stick to not buying it.

They Can...
by bhushan bhaagii October 2, 2007 9:40 AM PDT: Sure they can stick with it, and stick it
right there, where you know...; Like this

All I can say is Good luck! DRM = Digital Restrictions Management
by bobby_brady October 2, 2007 9:23 AM PDT: Basically I forecast Viacom going backwards to the days of having similar DRM as PressPlay.

Perhaps their group can develope DRM technologies that will force the end user to watch the content within a few hours and then, *poof* it's gone. Another force them to watch it within 2 days. Also, have all sorts of different pricing strategies and throw in certain content that can only be burned and watched once. Make it so confussing that nobody will want it.

So Good Luck Viacom. See ya when you're getting taking over.; Like this Reply to this comment

Message to music listeners.
by idsantos October 2, 2007 9:25 AM PDT: "WASHINGTON--Content creators and their digital distributors must unite against piracy by installing more "safeguards," Viacom's CEO said Tuesday."

Music listeners must unite against big corporations like Viacon, now I have said it.

By not buying music from big corporations like Viacon.; Like this Reply to this comment

Forget them
by holycow October 2, 2007 10:06 AM PDT: Best not to buy music from a Viacom brand. Best not to steal it
either, that would hurt them doubly.; Like this Reply to this comment

Good Luck With That
by Renegade Knight October 2, 2007 10:42 AM PDT: I just bought my first digital song on Amazon. Yeah, the interface can use some work but it was easy and the song just works. That's the way I like it.

If they can make DRM work as well as that Amazon.com song, great.

Oh and Viacom has no right whatsoever to "fair" compensation. They only have the right to try to get paid for their work. The market determines the price. They don't have to like it, but they will live with it.

PS by Their Work I mean the work of the creative people who have placed their work in Viacom's hands since Corporations don't create content. People do.; Like this Reply to this comment

DRM generally doesn't work
by magnusdopus October 2, 2007 10:49 AM PDT: At one point, I would have been considered the Viacom's ideal wmusic customer. I subscribed to a DRM based music service for over four years. I purchased CDs for albums that I really liked. But recently I've experience what Steve Jobs poignantly stated - DRM is fatally flawed. My change in this matter is due to generally a poor experience with DRM based services. Basically, the system will work great for a few months, and then the service will do an upgrade, and everything will be broken again.; Like this Reply to this comment

He doesn't appear to understand fair use
by unknown unknown October 2, 2007 10:50 AM PDT: or the wording makes it sound that way.

"Dauman said his company supports fair use and would love to see its popular characters on "every nook and cranny of the Internet," but only if the "artists" behind the content are fairly compensated."

A fair use is a non-infringing use that can be made without permission or compensation.

If this how they (Viacom and other media companies ) think I have little sympathy for them when it comes to piracy. Regarding the new for new laws, I think what he means they don't want them unless they were written for and by Hollywood (like the DMCA).; Like this Reply to this comment

1984
by `WarpKat October 2, 2007 11:02 AM PDT: My friends, each of you is a single cell in the great body of the State. And today, that great body has purged itself of parasites. We have triumphed over the unprincipled dissemination of facts. The thugs and wreckers have been cast out. And the poisonous weeds of disinformation have been consigned to the dustbin of history. Let each and every cell rejoice! For today, we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directive! We have created, for the first time in all history, a garden of pure ideology, where each worker may bloom secure from the pests of contradictory and confusing truths. Our Unification of Thought is a more powerful weapon than any fleet or army on Earth. We are one people. With one will. One resolve. One cause. Our enemies shall talk themselves to death. And we will bury them with their own confusion. We shall prevail!

Wait a minute...; Like this Reply to this comment

So... no "net-neutrality"...

by Had_to_be_said October 2, 2007 9:04 PM PDT

...Corporations, and monopolies, should be allowed to do whatever they want.

...But, consumers, should have "Trusted Computing" shoved down their throats.

Heres AT&Ts take on "Trusted Computing" (see the "insecure computers" reference in their new "TOS"):

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070930-att-threatens-to-disconnect-subscribers-who-are-critical-of-the-company.html

And, heres a few statements, made recently, regarding the proper future of the Internet... as the former U.S. "Cyber-Czar" sees it...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/02/richard_clarke_speech_trust_online_santa_clara_university_microsoft/

Be afraid... Be, very, afraid...