February 05, 2004
DRM
Doc Searls passes along a question from Phil Windley.
Suppose you'd been asked to address the CTO organization of a major (over 125,000 employees) company on digital rights management. What would you tell them?
I'd tell them that with every iteration of Moore's Law it gets easier to make money by sharing information and harder to make money by hiding information. That makes DRM a loser.
In my book for entrepreneurs, I talk about the importance of the 30 mile-an-hour wind. In baseball, if the wind were that strong toward right field, you are much better off trying to hit with the wind than going to left. Trying to use DRM to control content is like trying to hit against a 30 mile-an-hour wind. It's not impossible, but it's very unpromising.
Posted by Arnold at 11:24 PM |
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You obviously haven't been the victim of $100 million in losses in a single incident due to the premature leakage of a product roadmap to a competitor...
Yes, a determined leaker can still give away secrets in an empty parking garage in the dead of night, but DRM makes leaking complex technical details a lot harder, and makes tracking down the "last known authorized person" a lot easier.
Posted by Stratus on February 6, 2004 10:57 PM | Permalink to Comment
You obviously haven't been the victim of $100 million in losses in a single incident due to the premature leakage of a product roadmap to a competitor...
Yes, a determined leaker can still give away secrets in an empty parking garage in the dead of night, but DRM makes leaking complex technical details a lot harder, and makes tracking down the "last known authorized person" a lot easier.
Posted by Stratus on February 6, 2004 10:57 PM | Permalink to Comment