The Washington Post has a good article on a meeting that took place in Silicon Valley over Hollywood’s continuing pressures over DRM (digital Rights management) to be embedded into devices. It’s been a long going debate already but the article points out some good stuff.
“Overbroad and over applied copyright is a threat to all of us and affects everyone,” DigitalConsumer.org co-founder Joe Kraus said Wednesday during the Digital Rights Summit at Intel Corp.’s headquarters. “It’s eroding the foundation of Silicon Valley.”
With technology companies’ stock prices and revenues mired in doldrums, digital rights management has also become one of the rare issues that provokes passions in Silicon Valley, epicenter of the American technology industry.
“Companies like ours are going to stop innovating because at the edge of innovation is a lawsuit,” he said. “We cannot afford that risk.” Said Greg Ballard, chief executive of Santa Clara-based SONICblue
Rep. Howard Berman -
“Digital rights has become a smoke screen for discussing financial excess of Silicon Valley in the late 1990s and the realities of the industry’s slump.
“Let’s not believe in the notion that Hollywood and repressive intellectual property laws — rather than overcapitalized price-to-earnings models, fears about war and other aspects of a cyclical economy — have had the most repressive effects on innovation in Silicon Valley,” he said. “Let’s have some perspective. This issue is not as bad as 45 million people living without health insurance.”
Full Story @ Washingtonpost.com
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