James Patrick Kelly on DRM
p2pnet.net - the original daily p2p and digital media news site: "DRM is all-but useless. Just about everyone agrees on that - except the people who are trying to get rich on it, of course, and the entertainment industry, which is trying to convince itself that it actually works as a form of product protection, and ....
But you know how it goes.
Sci-fi author Jim Kelly wondered if DRM schemes are hurting his career.
'The way I see it, readers and rep are what really matter to a writer. Dollars should follow from a satisfied readership, although exactly how this happens in these times of technological and economic innovation is not immediately apparent, alas,' he writes in an Asimov's Science Fiction post, going on:
'I do believe that the net has irretrievably compromised twentieth-century notions of intellectual property and that no amount of DRM shenanigans is going to turn back the copyright clock.'"
But you know how it goes.
Sci-fi author Jim Kelly wondered if DRM schemes are hurting his career.
'The way I see it, readers and rep are what really matter to a writer. Dollars should follow from a satisfied readership, although exactly how this happens in these times of technological and economic innovation is not immediately apparent, alas,' he writes in an Asimov's Science Fiction post, going on:
'I do believe that the net has irretrievably compromised twentieth-century notions of intellectual property and that no amount of DRM shenanigans is going to turn back the copyright clock.'"
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