Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 22nd Aug 2005 18:30 UTC
Sun Microsystems, weighing in on the fractious issue of protecting copyrighted digital content, on Sunday announced a project it calls the Open Media Commons initiative aimed at creating an open-source, royalty-free digital-rights management standard.
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2005-07-08
Or more concisely, it is (almost) completely unreasonable to say, "I refuse to consume any DRM media," although it is completely reasonable to say, "I refuse to consume media with abusive DRM restrictions." Then it is up to you to decide what is abusive.
For example, what if I distributed a hilarious animated commentary on American politics, protected by DRM policies modeled after the GPL? That is, you can download this video and freely copy, modify, and redistribute it so long as you share your critically acclaimed bonus scene entitled "Laura Bush: The Wild Years." I think the current conception of DRM frameworks would only allow for modification in the sense that you could contribute your mod to the original author who would make it widely available. So, it wouldn't be exactly like GPL, but close.
Of course, I would only do this if I knew that DRM client technologies were ubiquitous on free software platforms... hence the importance of Sun's initiative.