“Content owners don’t want to be constrained and neither do end users, but everyone in the middle wants DRM to be proprietary. And that’s one of the reasons that we don’t see a single trust model used for DRM,” ContentGuard CEO Michael Miron the CEO as quoted in ContentGuard talks DRM futures, in the Register.
The TeleRead take: So who’s in the middle–copyright lawyers paid by the software giants? Oh, well, at least Miron is admitting that end users don’t like to be “constrained.” Exactly. Consumers can tolerate some inconvenience–but not the level that has contributed to the horrid showing of e-books so far. A truly universal DRM standard for e-books could go a long way. The other issue is that a nonproprietary or semiproprietary approach would actually be more secure with more people licking the tires.
