February 19, 2004

Come-hither noises-- Intellectual Property --

Jim Griffin (former head of technology for Geffen Records) tells The Register that Wi-fi will be the death-knell for DRM/content control (I buy that) and that the solution will be flat-fee models (I'm not so sure yet, but haven't looked at the particulars). Best quote:

By promising to play nice, and building DRM and TCPA technologies, the computer industry is simply making come-hither noises that the rights holders want to hear.

"When I was 14, I told girls I loved them to sleep with them too. It was a fiction. Steve Jobs just leaves a little money on the table," he says. "These theoretical notions of control run headlong into the real historical experience."

Posted by bug to Intellectual Property at February 19, 2004 1:22 PM | TrackBack
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