Dr. Grace Agnew - Restrictions of Digital Rights Management

Dr. Grace Agnew discusses the basics of digital rights management and how it affects consumers and rights holders.
Grace Agnew is the Associate University Librarian for Digital Library Systems at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. She is the architect and principal investigator for the NSF-funded Moving Image Collections project, a union catalog and gateway of the world's moving image collections as well as the principal architect for the New Jersey Digital Highway a statewide digital repository of cultural and historical materials. She is the author or co-author of numerous articles and on metadata, digital video and digital rights management. She is the co-author of the book, Getting Mileage out of Metadata (ALA, 1999) and is currently authoring a book, Digital Rights Management, a Practical Guide for Libraries, for Chandos Press, a division of Oxford University Press (September 2005, forthcoming).

[@f00dl3]

I think the last part of the video highlights the main flaw in DRM systems. You literally have to pay for a song4 times and spend almost half the cost of a CD in order to legally play it on your computer (first purchase), your laptop (2nd license), your phone (3rd license), your iPod (4th license), and if you want to listen to it in your car you have to either burn it to a CD or "circumvent" copyright to save it as a non-DRM MP3 to put on USB thumb drive (if your car has a USB port like mine)

[@eMuleDownload]

Whats your thoughts on DRM that can easily be defeated. For example, the Windows rights management system didn't take long to bypass.

[@lunesoft]

To import my dvds onto my media centre, i need to circumvent the copy protection ( break the law ). DRM made me a criminal. DRM was a massive inconvenience to me as a paying customer. I later decided to bin the DVD, and steal it off the internet, DRM was a piece of cake for me as a thief. If i have to steal it to watch it, why bother buying the dvd.. waste of plastic.