<div dir="ltr"><div>Nobert, the example of offline purchase is again invalid in the DRM context. Anything you buy online will always leave a usable trail - credit/debit cards, bank transactions, any other means. So DRM in this context brings in nothing new in the context of privacy 'loss'. Buying books at a store or movies at a gas station with cash are always free of this element - but anything you buy online will always be track-able even without DRM. If you do disagree with this and believe DRM will bring in tracking of ONLINE transactions, in a form that does not exist today please give me a viable example of that. </div>
<div> </div><div>As for CDM not working on your platform of choice - this is like the Xbox game example right...? I like a racing game by the cover and choose to buy it only to find I don't have the system required to play it. I have the resources and capability to install the system that will let me play it, but I <em>choose</em> not to for whatever reason so the game (or whatever) becomes useless to me. Now this is a case for the jury but IMHO it's just a poor assessment of usage feasibility before purchase. </div>
<div> </div><div>It does happen where kids buy a 3D game without having a 3D headset/eyepiece, and then don't want to buy one for 3x the cost of the game - so the game becomes useless. Ebooks purchased on one site may not be compatible with my reader, and I don't buy the Kindle (or whatever) needed to read it - so the book becomes useless. I buy a windows game that doesnt adequately work in a emulator/virtual environment - so again that's a poor <em>choice</em> of purchase. <strong>Not DRM's fault</strong>. So these are not valid arguments against DRM... :)</div>
<div> </div><div>-C</div><div> </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 3:16 PM, Norbert Bollow <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nb@bollow.ch" target="_blank">nb@bollow.ch</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">Chaitanya Dhareshwar <<a href="mailto:chaitanyabd@gmail.com">chaitanyabd@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<br>
> > I think that it's very important that when cultural goods are sold<br>
> > rather than shared freely, it must be possible to buy without the<br>
> > “who bought what” information getting recorded in some kind of<br>
> > database.<br>
><br>
> I say this is already being done. Moot point as DRM is not the culprit<br>
> here.<br>
<br>
</div>It is true that it is already being done quite independently of DRM for<br>
example in the context of physical books bought from Amazon.<br>
<br>
But physical books can also be bought in ways that do not involve<br>
creating such a data trail. (At least as long as there is a physical<br>
bookstore near where you are which has the book that you want in the<br>
shop, and you pay cash, and you don't use a “customer loyalty” card when<br>
buying it.)<br>
<br>
That is not likely to be possible for DRM'd electronic books, videos,<br>
etc. Hence I consider this issue a valid argument against DRM.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> > In my opinion, it is not plausible to expect the CDMs to be made<br>
> > available for Free Software operating system platforms. (Doing so<br>
> > would make it trivially easy to defeat what that whole architecture<br>
> > with the CDMs is seeking to achieve.)<br>
><br>
> Doing so will not prevent the FS community from utilizing the<br>
> resources/material that have been rightfully purchased;<br>
<br>
</div>If I rightfully purchase something and get it in encrypted form, but<br>
the relevant Content Decryption Module (CDM) doesn't run on the<br>
computer that I use, that is supposed to be pretty effective in<br>
preventing me from accessing the content that I've purchased.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> The key reason I'm against DRM is here:<br>
</div>[snip]<br>
<br>
I agree with all of that.<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
Greetings,<br>
Norbert<br>
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