[cc-community] NIN album / DRM

Denver Gingerich denver at ossguy.com
Tue May 20 14:23:29 EDT 2008


On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Paul Keller <pk at kl.nl> wrote:
> hi all,
>
> have an interesting little use-case that i would like you to weigh in.
> It centers around the use of the Ghosts album by NIN under a cc
> license. The user in question is the central discotheque of Rotterdam
> (no that is not a night club) but a public (non-profit) library for
> audio recordings.
[,,,]
> They are willing top both make available physical copies (burned CDs)
> as well as full non-DRMed flash/mp3 streams of all songs alongside the
> DRM download but it seems that their system does not allow them to
> make the album available for download sans DRM.

The correct solution is to fix their system so that it allows them to
make the album available without DRM.  I could rant and rave about how
stupid it was for the software designers to assume a DRM model for all
songs but I don't think anyone here needs convincing of that.

I hope their system is open source so they can fix it or that they
have the power to get a feature added by the solution provider.  If
neither is the case, then let this be a lesson to organizations that
accept non-open source solutions.

As Mike mentioned, a parallel system might be an option, but that
would suffer from not being integrated into the search and other
features of the existing system, making it harder to find and use
albums that cannot be distributed with DRM.

Denver


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