Right, and you point out something important which is that people who don’t want to pay, people who are pirates, don’t get bothered by the DRM, they go out and buy the cracked books or download the cracked books for free. It’s only people who are foolish enough to pay for them that get locked into these platforms.
Interpretation
DRM (Digital Rights Management) fails to deter those who seek free access to content, leaving honest consumers at a disadvantage.
Cory Doctorow highlights the irony of Digital Rights Management (DRM) systems in his quote. He suggests that those who are inclined to pirate content will bypass these protections effortlessly, while honest consumers, who are willing to pay, find themselves restricted by the very systems meant to protect them. This illustrates the often counterproductive nature of DRM and raises questions about consumer rights and the effectiveness of such measures in the digital age.
In practice
During a panel on copyright, this quote can illustrate the frustrations of legitimate consumers.
Content isn't king. If I sent you to a desert island and gave you the choice of taking your friends or your movies, you'd choose your friends -- if you chose the movies, we'd call you a sociopath. Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.
He hated it when adults told him he only felt the way he did because he was young. As if being young was like being insane or drunk, like the convictions he held were hallucinations caused by a mental illness that could only be cured by waiting five years.
... the Kindle is a "roach motel" device: its license terms and DRM ensure that books can check in, but they can't check out.
We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.
When you factor in population growth, it's clear that the mobility model that we have today simply will not work tomorrow. Four billion clean cars on the road are still four billion cars, and a traffic jam with no emissions is still a traffic jam.
My vision is for a fully reusable rocket transport system between Earth and Mars that is able to re-fuel on Mars - this is very important - so you don't have to carry the return fuel when you go there.
Everybody right now, they look at the current technology, and they think, 'OK, that's what artificial neural nets are.' And they don't realize how arbitrary it is. We just made it up! And there's no reason why we shouldn't make up something else.
I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity.
Software patents, in particular, are very ripe for abuse. The whole system encourages big corporations getting thousands and thousands of patents. Individuals almost never get them.
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