Why DRM?

Digital rights management, or DRM, has become a technology buzzword for the modern age. Users frame large organizations like the MPAA and IRAA as totalitarian monsters while these same organizations simultaneously frame the users as hardened criminals. However in all the hubbub the real importance of the debate is lost. The point of different digital right management technologies should be two parts

1. Give proper credit to content creators
2. Assure appropriate compensation to content creators

Maybe with big name movies and music giving proper credit isn't as big an issue since everyone can clearly see that Brad Pitt and George Clooney star in the Ocean's movies, but blockbuster movies and pop music are not the only place digital rights management is important. Independent music and film and well as online publishing of commentaries and literature need credit given where credit is deserved. Funnily enough these groups that are mostly likely to be hurt are also the groups that are the least likely to be protected since the large organization that lead the charge against piracy aren't the least bit interested in the independent little guys. The big problem with digital rights managements is that it's being implemented by organization like the MPAA and IRAA who's interest is not the right of content creators, but rather content providers. What the future needs is a technology that the content creators can use to manage their own content and make sure they get their fair share and credit.