The consumer is be force feed the DRM as a side dish to the Digital Revolution. While the Studios and MPEAA, and the RIAA, cry poor and blame piracy as the reason they’re “losing money” they push DRM on us,consumers are in grave danger of losing their freedom to use their media as they see fir as long as it falls into “Fair Use” The problem is DRM will destroy consumers rights entirely, and the consumer won’t realize it until its too late.
l By then it will be too late, the laws will be in place and hardware manufactures will have given into the RIAA and others to cripple or dumb down their hardware to work within the specifications. The story above about DRM is another example of DRM creeping in and limiting our fair use of material. Please check my blog to read my other ideas..
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Those are both good questions.

Part of free speech is the right to comment on people, ideas, things. When video is locked down with DRM, it becomes very difficult and/or illegal to access the material, for the legal purposes of commenting, parodying, or satirizing. Furthermore, it’s not enough to just point to a video that is hosted on some random server or hosting service — it could disappear. So in the end, it’s really critical for people to have the ability to incorporate external media into their own work.

While a meta-data wrapper is a great thing, it isn’t the same as being able to scrape the video itself for information. I know that automated voice recognition/transcription is still pretty young, but as this stuff becomes more powerful and widespread, having access to the video file itself will become important.

Hope that spreads light on the issue. If you have any more questions, ask away.

I’m no fan of DRM but I don’t exactly understand those 2 points.

http://metavid.ucsc.edu/wiki/index.php/Mv_Embed