Comments on: User-Generated Media, DRM vs. DAC http://www.realityprime.com/articles/user-generated-media-drm-vs-dac Advanced Technology Research Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:50:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: avi http://www.realityprime.com/articles/user-generated-media-drm-vs-dac/comment-page-1#comment-1948 avi Fri, 15 Sep 2006 15:29:53 +0000 http://www.realityprime.com/articles/user-generated-media-drm-vs-dac#comment-1948 I'm not imagining something that phones home, unless it's strictly opt-in (e.g., gives some benefit to the end-user for participating). If some percentage of people participate in the market-tracking programs (using DAC), that can be extrapolated into meaningful numbers for the overall population, without requiring our media to phone home.<br /><br />But for most of us, the point is that if we produce something or create something, the authorship info would be preserved when we publish or reuse content. <br /><br />And it need not be a privacy issue there either. We can embed GUIDs and store the contact info elsewhere in a more protected form. Ideally, these GUIDs would even be re-encoded using the media itself, so someone couldn't simply insert his GUID on someone else's media and claim credit. I’m not imagining something that phones home, unless it’s strictly opt-in (e.g., gives some benefit to the end-user for participating). If some percentage of people participate in the market-tracking programs (using DAC), that can be extrapolated into meaningful numbers for the overall population, without requiring our media to phone home.

But for most of us, the point is that if we produce something or create something, the authorship info would be preserved when we publish or reuse content.

And it need not be a privacy issue there either. We can embed GUIDs and store the contact info elsewhere in a more protected form. Ideally, these GUIDs would even be re-encoded using the media itself, so someone couldn’t simply insert his GUID on someone else’s media and claim credit.

]]> By: Pat Gunn http://www.realityprime.com/articles/user-generated-media-drm-vs-dac/comment-page-1#comment-1947 Pat Gunn Fri, 15 Sep 2006 15:19:21 +0000 http://www.realityprime.com/articles/user-generated-media-drm-vs-dac#comment-1947 I don't think most of us would be comfortable with our media "phoning home". It's not actually that uncommon for people to go to some lengths to disable such things, because they don't want lawyers to come sniffing, because they're privacy nuts, because they don't want IT folk to see more signs of what they're doing on their laptops, or for any number of other reasons. I don’t think most of us would be comfortable with our media “phoning home”. It’s not actually that uncommon for people to go to some lengths to disable such things, because they don’t want lawyers to come sniffing, because they’re privacy nuts, because they don’t want IT folk to see more signs of what they’re doing on their laptops, or for any number of other reasons.

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