tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5688599.post112396268752145639..comments2023-10-12T04:54:05.108-07:00Comments on Deep Freeze 9: From copyfight to copytruceJP (Pierre) de Vrieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02311009024575927588noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5688599.post-1127179436313200572005-09-19T18:23:00.000-07:002005-09-19T18:23:00.000-07:00Ok, I'll bite. The sharing (not to mention,make a ...Ok, I'll bite. The sharing (not to mention,make a buck), at least with friends, impulse is well embedded in human nature and various cultural manifestations. The digital realm adds power and flexibility. I'm not a programmer, but I have to wonder how hard it would be to code a heirarchy of copying permissions into a file. Original ownership is worth x copies, medium unlimited. Person y has one of those copies and has either no copy capabilites or decreased capabilities and so on. I realize that this does not necessarily solve any immediate legal issues, but it starts to address the cultural issues behind.<BR/><BR/>My 2 centsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5688599.post-1124158671284076432005-08-15T19:17:00.000-07:002005-08-15T19:17:00.000-07:00I'm willing to question First Sale because it's ba...I'm willing to question First Sale because it's based on the characteristics of physical goods; if I sell you my oil painting, I no longer own it. Intangible digital goods are perfectly copiable, and thus I can give you a digital photograph that's as good as the one I have and still retain.<BR/><BR/>One thus has to ask the question, can DRM implement the case law that's grown up around First Sale? I haven't seen any existence proofs, but that may just be ignorance. I have been told that the case law is so complex that one specific legal/engineering team that attempted it was unable to come up with a solution; there was contradictory case law. The technical solution could implement one judge's finding, or another's, but not both.JP (Pierre) de Vrieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02311009024575927588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5688599.post-1124151890711870232005-08-15T17:24:00.000-07:002005-08-15T17:24:00.000-07:00Why asking consumer to abandon a simple, timeless ...Why asking consumer to abandon a simple, timeless concept (I bought it, I can give it away or resell it if I want) simply because of Hollywood's paranoia? DRM could also ensure that "first sale" would indeed allow transfer vs. illegal copies.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com