Comments on: DRM is Like Paying for Ice

By: black_magiic

black_magiic — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

and still to this day McDonalds across North America do the same thing.

By: Adey11921

Adey11921 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

DRM on music at $0.99 a song is pretty extreme.
DRM on a new movie to watch for 24 hrs at $3-5.00 seems very fair. Its only like renting a video Its not like you are buying the movie.

There’s nothing wrong with DRM as a technology – its just when its employed to rip off consumer. That’s the content provider not the technology.

I can’t see how you can ever have movies on demand and huge amounts of content providers buying into digital home models without the opportunity to protect content.

I haven’t got a problem with DRm at the right price on appropriate content.

As for your Ice anology – I don’t get it? How does DRM water down the content?

By: Gamer8585

Gamer8585 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

“As for your Ice anology – I don’t get it? How does DRM water down the content?”

Economics 101: Its an negative feature that lowers the demand curve and thus the price consumers are willing to pay per unit.

To sum:
Media=$X
Media+DRM=$Y

$X=Demand Price
DRM= -N
$Y= (X+(-N))

By: Unsueable Davey Brown

Unsueable Davey Brown — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Well if DRM is in a product you’re renting then no the analogy doesn’t work. You don’t rent coke. If it’s DRM in a product you’re being told you’re buying then the analogy is valid. You’re paying extra for something you’re not getting

You see they say download this song and give us money. We the customer of course equate that with what we’re used to thinking of as a download. We get our download with the sweetness of being able to take it store it where we want use it the way we want convert it play it where and how we want. So we buy it get it take a sip and “What the hell is this? This isn’t what I ordered.” I didn’t want ice..er…I mean DRM.