reasons not to use DRM?

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  • Radiate
    Confirmed User
    • Dec 2004
    • 1454
    #51
    Originally posted by mattyboy
    Just looked at it from a surfers point of view.
    What I mean is, I thought the point of DRM was to make it so the surfer has to have a membership to view the video, if you give it a lifetime license, then why use DRM at all?

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      • bigdog
        Confirmed User
        • Jul 2001
        • 6964
        #52
        I wonder what will happen once drm is cracked. At least with streaming videos the surfers has to go out of his way and try to copy it.

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          • Barefootsies
            Choice is an Illusion
            • Feb 2005
            • 42635
            #53
            Originally posted by mb
            IMHO

            DRM is GOOD for protecting quality, exclusive/underused content
            DRM is BAD for oversaturated bland content

            mb

            Interesting way to put it.

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              • Forkbeard
                Confirmed User
                • Feb 2002
                • 2236
                #54
                From the viewpoint of the technically savvy consumer, DRM is *always* bad. Not because the savvy consumer is a pirate, but because DRM says "you have to view and store this on *my* terms, not yours."

                In the mainstream world or the porn world, I won't buy something subject to DRM if I have *any* alternative. Unique content unlike any other, available no other way, perhaps. But how many of you really have that?

                DRM is customer-hostile. End of story. If you treat your customers like shoplifters, they are *more* likely to shoplift, not less. Bad business, as the PC game distributors discovered twenty years ago.
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                  • mattyboy
                    Confirmed User
                    • Mar 2003
                    • 1070
                    #55
                    Originally posted by Radiate
                    What I mean is, I thought the point of DRM was to make it so the surfer has to have a membership to view the video, if you give it a lifetime license, then why use DRM at all?
                    No, thats the misconception! We had quite a big problem with our stuff all over P2P and some newsgroups. DRM stops that but still gives the surfer a good deal.

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