[Fmpro] P2P Piracy

[Simon Barber]

Millions of kids do not know of a world where they cant download free  
MP3s and not pay for them. That combined with greed of humans is why  
there is such
resistance to DRM

No, the resistance to DRM is because it restricts what the user is  
allowed to do with a product they have paid for. If I am buying a new  
car and the salesman tells me I am only allowed to drive on a certain  
street, I don't buy the car. To be successful, you accommodate the  
user's habits, you don't enforce a mode of behaviour you would ideally  
like to see. Have you considered the notion that the model you are  
trying to apply to digital content is simply not the right one? From  
the moment digital technology allowed perfect copies to be made, a new  
business model was required, but still you insist on trying to shackle  
empowered users to a broken system of digital handcuffs and control.  
As one of the other readers suggested, the cat is out of the bag, you  
can't go back and need to embrace new ways of generating revenue from  
your content.

Sorry to sound exasperated, but I am shocked at how backward some of  
the thinking is on this list. All of this has been apparent to digital  
content creators for the past several years.