http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/09/30/real-vs-the-mpaa-dumb-and-dumberer/ ... at the intersection of media, technology, business and the web Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:01:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/09/30/real-vs-the-mpaa-dumb-and-dumberer/comment-page-1/#comment-375110 PatrickRoss Sat, 04 Oct 2008 05:39:28 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/?p=2729#comment-375110 The answer is obvious here. It really doesn't matter how good the DRM is that Real adds. They never had a right to have their hands on the media to begin with. The key here is that the copyright owner has rights. If Real had wanted to do a service like this, it could have sought to work with the studios. Instead it did the classic tech approach of "infringe now, litigate (and hopefully settle) later." The answer is obvious here. It really doesn't matter how good the DRM is that Real adds. They never had a right to have their hands on the media to begin with. The key here is that the copyright owner has rights. If Real had wanted to do a service like this, it could have sought to work with the studios. Instead it did the classic tech approach of “infringe now, litigate (and hopefully settle) later.”

]]> http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/09/30/real-vs-the-mpaa-dumb-and-dumberer/comment-page-1/#comment-343247 PatrickRoss Sat, 04 Oct 2008 01:39:28 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/?p=2729#comment-343247 The answer is obvious here. It really doesn't matter how good the DRM is that Real adds. They never had a right to have their hands on the media to begin with. The key here is that the copyright owner has rights. If Real had wanted to do a service like this, it could have sought to work with the studios. Instead it did the classic tech approach of "infringe now, litigate (and hopefully settle) later." The answer is obvious here. It really doesn't matter how good the DRM is that Real adds. They never had a right to have their hands on the media to begin with. The key here is that the copyright owner has rights. If Real had wanted to do a service like this, it could have sought to work with the studios. Instead it did the classic tech approach of “infringe now, litigate (and hopefully settle) later.”

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