Repeat after me: DRM is not about piracy. Casual sharing is not piracy: http://www.idealog.com/blog/drm-may-not-prevent-piracy-but-it-might-still-protect-sales/ … Hixie empiricism:http://www.zdnet.com/article/google-engineer-drm-has-nothing-to-do-with-piracy/ …
It's not totally clear to me who, overall, is making the money here...
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Le petit et grand rentiers: DRM vendors for sure. Incumbents from content to browser powers too, by taxing competition and inter-locking in.
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Sure, but why is any of this in the interest of CONTENT creators. It's a mystery to me. Rentiers persuade them of dumb piracy arguments?
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Yes, and to suppress casual sharing. + to control supply of playback devices for price leverage. See https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/883730873014603776 … -- no mystery!
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Casual sharing can be suppressed with streaming and very basic mitigations.
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Basis for hope in watermarking. And yet, anything above SD was (s/w obfuscated) DRMed. Hollywood contracts require it, inertia + known qty.
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It just ultimately makes it nearly impossible to make roku or Chromecast, but who is benefiting?
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Your question answers itself!
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Except that Roku and Chromecast aren't the ones adding the DRM. Content providers should want it to be easier to make players, no?
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I could believe the content providers are being hoodwinked by platforms who know better but want to maintain their barrier to entry.
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Content providers & gatekeepers also want barriers to other content providers entering/routing-around gates. Loose combos do restrain trade.
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I'd think the barriers to new content providers are much lower than new platforms, meaning content has more to gain by more platforms.
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Barriers lower than ever. But path-dependent winners have power. HBO => GoT, Netflix a studio now. YouTubers farmed via ads. Not same scale.
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There are youtubers who make a lot via sponsorships. Geek and Sundry is a brand on Twitch. Same scale? No. But barriers low.
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