Protect, Point, Pay
The Associated Press thinks that the way to save journalism is to use new technology (DRM) to preserve its old business model. Reddit user ClockworkSparrow took AP's diagram and rewrote the text to expose the folly of this idea.
Rollover the image to see the parody version. Caution: Language is NSFW.
Diagram of the AP’s new Protect, Point, Pay Scheme
To add insult to injury, after studying the initial press release, Ed Felten determined that the technology AP plans to use can't actually do any of the things they claim it can!
Lest we forget, Techdirt reminds us why any strategy that depends upon DRM is doomed to fail:
This has been said before (multiple times) but you don't rescue your business model by "protecting" against what people want to do. You don't rescue your business model by wasting resources trying to hold back what people want to do. You rescue your business by providing more value and figuring out a way to monetize that value. Putting bogus DRM on news does none of that. It only hastens failure.
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