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Patrick's opinion about CDT's recent report on copyright..
I particular like CDT's view that in the long run:
[A] combination of robust enforcement of copyright law to make infringement unattractive and technical protections for online content offers the best possibility of fostering vibrant new markets for content delivery, consistent with innovation and the open architecture of the Internet. And, most emphatically, that:
[C]ontent creators, technology companies, and consumers all have a shared interest in avoiding [bad] outcomes. And that the goal is:
[A] digital environment where high-quality content is widely available in ways that continue to protect the authors and owners of that content, as part of a well-functioning market that allows for new and exciting uses of content by individuals. Read the whole thing.
One gap, though: CDT does not address the retrofit problem. DRM might be excellent for IP produced in the future, but what about the existing stock of both IP and access devices? Put DRM onto future CDs and you render hundreds of millions of existing players obsolete.
Nor does DRM solve the problem that at some point digital IP must be output in analog form, and it can be captured and re-digitized free of the DRM, and sent over the Internet.
Given the combination of criminal gangs and ideological interests devoted to undermining IP as an institution, enforcement is going to remain a tough and nasty business.
posted by James DeLong @ 10:19 AM |
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