Re: DRMTICS 2005 Call for Papers

Sebastian Gottschalk wrote:

> Andrew Swallow wrote:
>
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>>>>Invent a method of payment that the customers find acceptable,
>>>>so few will want to cheat.
>>>
>>>Simple: No watermarking at all. Flat rate for all media.
>>>
>>
>>Too easy to send an email containing the file to a group of friends.
>
>
> This doesn't violate the scheme, the copyright holders are still getting
> paid.

Only for the first copy. The problem is to ensure that they
get paid for all copies.

>
>
>>We then get the ISPs
>>to attach the email address to a snail mail address, POTS
>>number or mobile phone number. It may be slow but we
>>can find the customer.
>
>
> Try again. What stops me from using a fake acocunt at hotmail, access it
> via WebMail interface and using TOR/JAP/anonymous SSL Proxy?
>

That depends on how long anonymous addresses stay anonymous.

>
>>>BTW, this is also why TCPA even more of a joke.
>>
>>The basic system needs to satisfy the general public, so illegal
>>activity stays small. Once it gets large you have lost.
>
>
> I can't see any satisfaction of public through DRM at all.
>
> Companies like allofmp3.com are getting the major part exactly because
> they're using a free, compatible and cheap format where dumpass RIAA
> managers are already taking about raising the prices for online music even
> more. And the most watched TV(-like) channel is emuleTV.

RIAA is a cartel whose members should be sent to jail.

The recording industry is actually the plastic disk
manufacturing industry. The recording studios normally have
different owners are and charge the *musicians* for the recording
session.

A recording contract is an agreement by the plastic disk
manufactures to:
a. lend the musicians money; normally at a secret (i.e. usurious)
    rate of interest.
b. to have a monopoly to make and distribute the plastic disks.
c. to pay a musicians a few cents per plastic disk sold, the first
    royalties going to pay off the loan.

The plastic disk manufactures have nothing to do with internet
distribution but would still like to be given money for it.

Movies are more complex because they include actors, singers,
dancers, musicians plus lots of technical people like cameramen
and makeup girls.

Andrew Swallow
Received on Thu Sep 29 21:39:07 2005