Say bye bye to private infromation
Hi this is 13thHouR, some of you may remember me from the whole Security Technologies (Starforce) battle a few years ago.
Although I see the market bs about DRM's the reality is that they are a false economy that give the illusion of security for content providers. Basically Marketing snake oil.
The is one simple rule, make your content affordable and accessible and you will never need a DRM, as those willing to buy will buy, those not willing to buy, then look at advertising based platforms.
Even after all this you will have the die hard who will refuse to purchase. The reality is to those peeps you never had a sale anyway.
The Internet is no longer a new media platform, the one thing we have learned from the Banks and Austerity, there is no benefit in propping up old ways of doing things.
DRM's make the end user pay twice for legitimately accessing content, once for the content and the second time for the band width and hardware required to decode that DRM.
Why should the end user pay twice, just because the media industry refuses to adapt with the times.
Did we not learn anything from Starforce? To secure any DRM these days requires run level zero access, do you really want your Browser having access to the root of your hardware/Software?
Starforce had the potential to be exploited in such a manner as to shift the balance in the control of information around the world, with Catastrophic results had it still existed in that format in today's political environment. Do we really want to hand that sort of control to our browsers?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
