{"id":42,"date":"2005-03-20T16:55:58","date_gmt":"2005-03-20T14:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/?p=42"},"modified":"2010-11-14T01:55:03","modified_gmt":"2010-11-13T23:55:03","slug":"drm-in-developing-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/?p=42","title":{"rendered":"DRM in Developing Countries"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF<\/a>) has submitted a paper<\/a> to the International Telecommunications Union (ITU<\/a>), where the organization gives its views on why Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology is damaging for developing nations.<\/p>\n

The answer to “Which DRM will spur the most development in my nation?” is “None at all.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

One of the more pressing points, I believe, is how DRM prevents resale, or even donation, of used goods – something that is crucial to many economies in developing countries. Maybe it’s not such a great deal if where talking about the latest Britney Spears album – but way more serious when you consider that Adobe’s eBook-system also incorporates DRM-technology.<\/p>\n

Then there is a problem with infrastructure, of rather lack thereof. Some DRM-solutions require the client\/consumer to be in contact with a central server from time to time. This is of course not pretty difficult in a rural area with little or no internet connectivity.<\/p>\n

However, my only complaint is that the EFF report feels somewhat thin. They argue, with their usual precision, against DRM in the developed countries – but fall a bit short in providing specific examples with regards to the developing world. Their main point seem to be it didn’t work here – and it sure won’t work there<\/em>, an argument that might not convince the sceptics and be heard over the powerful pro-DRM lobby organizations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has submitted a paper to the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), where the organization gives its views on why Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology is damaging for developing nations. The answer to “Which DRM will spur the most development in my nation?” is “None at all.” One of the more pressing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-culture","category-ict4d"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":432,"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}