DRM Take II — Digital Personal Property 356
Diabolus Advocatus writes "Ars Technica has an article on a new form of DRM being considered by the IEEE. It's called Digital Personal Property and although it removes some of the drawbacks of conventional DRM it introduces new drawbacks of its own. From the article: 'Digital personal property (DPP) is an attempt to make consumers treat digital media like physical objects. For instance, you might loan your car to a friend, a family member, or a neighbor. You might do so on many different occasions and for different lengths of time. But you are unlikely to leave the car out front of your house with the keys in it and a sign on it saying, "Take me!" If you did, you might never see the vehicle again. It's that ability to lose control over property that is central to the DPP system. DPP files are encrypted. They can be freely copied and distributed to anyone, but here's the trick: anyone who can view your content can also "steal" it irrevocably. The simple addition of a way to lose content instantly leads consumers to set up a "circle of trust" that can be as wide as they like but will not extend to total strangers on the Internet.'"
You down with DPP? (Score:5, Funny)
Hey guys (Score:1, Funny)
Re:It is only DRM+ (Score:3, Funny)
New Questions (Score:5, Funny)
This new development in the copyright arena is going to raise several important questions. Do we refer to this as "Dippy" or as "Da peepee"? Do we change the acronym to "Digital Pretend Property" or "Digital Property Penalties"? Will this technology never really take off, or will it only die after a multi-billion dollar campaign and several dozen slashdot debates? Only time will tell.
Re:You down with DPP? (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah you know me!
Forshame, whoever tagged the parent offtopic.
Ahem. Someone give me a fruityloops beat.
CTaco about to rocko
Cowboy neal, gimme your spheel!
DPP, how can I explain it
I'll take you frame by frame it
To have y'all sharin' shall we upp it?
D is for digital, P is for personal
The last P...well... that's not simple
It's sorta like another way to call (a concept regarding imaginary property) as (actual property)
It's eight little letters that are missin' here
You share on occasion at the other (download) part
As l33t h4x 'n it seems I gotta start to explainin'
Bust it
You ever had a torrent and grabbed it with a nice client
You get the packages and the IP and you know your shits compliant
You get home, wait an hour, peer's what you wanna know about
Then you open it up and it's some fed who straight up tryin' restraint!
It's not a front, F to the R to the O to the N to the T
It's just the police at a seeder's house (Boy, that's what is scary)
It's DPP, data other people's what you get it
There's no room for rights management, there's just room to hit it
How many brothers out there know just what I'm gettin' at
Who thinks it's wrong 'cos I'm leechin' and rippin' at
Well if you do, that's DPP and you're not down with it
But if you don't, here's your l33t membership
Chorus:
You down with DPP (Yeah you know me) 3X
Who's down with DPP (Every last matey)
You down with DPP (Yeah you know me) 3X
Who's down with DPP (All the mateys!)
As for the lamers, DPP means something gifted
The first two letters are the same but the last is something different
It's the quickest, slickest, compres-- I call it the compressedest
It's another eight letter word rhymin' with unruly and a-stoolie
I won't get into that, I'll do it...ah...sorta properly
I say the last P...hmmm...stands for pachouli
Now hackers here comes a packet, blow ICMP back to me, now tell me exactly
Have you ever known a hacker who have another torrent or FTP
And you just had to stop and just 'cos it went so fast
You portscanned it, it blacklisted you right away
That it had some l33t porn but it wouldnt be yours anyway
You couldn't be caught with it and honestly you didn't care
'Cos in a room behind a door no one but ur server's there
When you finish, you'll start seeding is what you tell yourself
And then you know that seeding's whack, cut that shit to preserve your wealth!
Chorus:
You down with DPP (Yeah you know me) 3X
Who's down with DPP (Every last matey)
You down with DPP (Yeah you know me) 3X
Who's down with DPP (All the mateys!)
Download it down!
New name, old shit (Score:3, Funny)
I don't know if they are stupid or smart, either way it will penalize only the legal buyers, as always.
Re:You down with DPP? (Score:5, Funny)
Damnit! You people and your "If I take your car, now I have it and you don't" analogies have ruined it for everyone! Now copyright infringement really WILL be theft!
At least for the week it takes someone to figure out how to duplicate the keys, anyway.
I work for iTunes at Apple... (Score:1, Funny)
And I thought my job was hard before? Now I have to keep the songs stocked! Every time someone downloads one it comes right off our shelves.
Re:DRM will fail. (Score:3, Funny)
Damn, beat me to it.
Lets just hope the RIAA doesn't try to enforce IP with a 10^34 J laser. Frankly though, it would be consistent with their historical level of subtlety.
Re:You down with DPP? (Score:4, Funny)
How about this one?
'Tis not thy name that is my enemy.(40)
Thou art thyself, completely evil.
What's DRM? it is not aid, nor help,
Nor safety, nor right, nor any other part
that ever good could come of!
What's in a name? That which we call DRM,
by any other name, would still smell like offal.
So DRM would, were it not DRM call'd,
Retain that deep imperfection which he owes,
without that title. DRM, doff thy name, but still be recognized;
And by any name, for thy evil is still part of thee,
GTFO.
Re:Seriously? (Score:3, Funny)
And since the entire revolution will occur in the form of /. posts, the revolution will slide off "most viewed" in a few days and post-revolutionary Earth will look much the same as pre-revolutionary Earth, with just a few geeks giving each other knowing glances and whispering "dude, we made a DIFFERENCE that day!"
Re:why do they keep trying? (Score:4, Funny)
if you can use a universal assembler to obtain any object you want, what motivation is there to do labor?
SOMEBODY is going to have to move the 5 ton golden statue of you off of the assembly pad and up the stairs. If you had thought about it ahead of time, you'd have assembled some robots first, but nooooooo