INDICARE Monitor About Consumer and User Issues of Digital Rights Management Solutions ISSN 1614-287X
INDICARE Monitor About Consumer and User Issues of Digital Rights Management Solutions www.indicare.org ISSN 1614-287X INDICARE Monitor Vol. 1, No 8, 28 January 2005 Content Editorial About the mind-set of software pirates.....................................................2 Knud Böhle, ITAS, Karlsruhe, Germany "Two souls, alas! are lodg'd within my breast…" Results of an online- survey on film consumption and piracy.....................................................6 Oliver Langewitz, Scientist, Institute for Sociology, Karlsruhe, Germany Restriking the balance: from DMCA to DMCRA. A short analysis of the May 2004 Hearing on the Digital Media Consumers’ Rights Act ........................10 Rik Lambers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Digital Rights Management or Digital Content Control Exercise? ................14 Péter Benjamin Tóth, ARTISJUS, Budapest, Hungary When "playing" isn't "playing" or how to achieve semantic interoperability .19 Niels Rump and Chris Barlas, Rightscom Limited, London, UK DRM at IST 2004 .................................................................................23 Zoltán Hornák, SEARCH Laboratory, Budapest, Hungary Eight comments on the first INDICARE state-of-the-art-report ..................27 Cory Doctorow, European Affairs Coordinator for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, London, United Kingdom Another cry in the wind? A review of Indicare's first state-of-the-art report ...................................29 Philip Merrill, Pasadena, United States Masthead ...........................................................................................32 The INformed DIalogue about Consumer Acceptability of DRM Solutions in Europe Editorial: About the mind-set of software pirates By: Knud Böhle, ITAS, Karlsruhe, Germany Abstract: The term "piracy" is used quite often, while still little is known about "pirates". An em- pirical sociological study about software pirates sheds some light on this crucial subject. Its spe- cial strength is to focus on the mind-set of "pirates" and its foundations.
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