[A2k] Paris TACD Meeting: Draft 'understanding' on RMI and TPMs

[Peter Eckersley]

On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 01:36:17PM -0400, James Love wrote:
> Terry Fisher, who is coming to the Paris event,  is looking at DRM
> systems that are designed to do what Peter Jenner referred to,
> helping creative persons and communities get paid for works, without
> the types of anti-consumer features that most hollywood/RIAAA DRM
> systems have embraced.  I think the notion that DRM itself is not the
> problem so much as the implementation of DRM schemes, is something
> worth considering.   This becomes more clear when one considers some
> of the proposals that Terry has been proposing.  Jamie

I think that alternative compensation systems based on public funding are more
helpfully described as the *opposite* of DRM, than as a kind of DRM.

Or do you think that there are strategic political reasons to campaign for
free non-commercial access to copyright works under the banner of "saner DRM"?

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Peter Eckersley
Department of Computer Science   &                  mailto:pde@cs.mu.oz.au
IP Research Institute of Australia             http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~pde
The University of Melbourne