tomjtx wrote: > benthos;168790 Wrote: >> That's where you and I part paths: it's about my property, not Apple's, >> or anyone else's.
> I completely agree with you that it's my property once I buy it. This > whole DRM thing should be a major consumer > concern...................but most people seem to be unaware of the > limitations DRM puts on our purchase. Sadly, this thread is going off topic. And it gets complicated quickly. IANAL... The legal terms on a CD are not what people think. You do not own the CD's music. You only own the right to listen to it. Buying a CD gives you only limited rights to use the music, you can not, for example, put the wave files up on the internet. Sony, last year put out a number of CDs with DRM on them, which is fairly bad, but much worse was that Sony put them out without labeling that the CDs were not really CDs, per the RedBook spec. Video licensing is even less well understood that music, as bandwidth to share videos has not been around and commonplace as long as bandwidth to share music. It is correct that today, neither Microsoft nor Apple include DRM in their mainline products. But Microsoft's Play-for-sure was a DRM. And Apple is in bed with Disney, a major creator of movies. So one should be careful extrapolating from today's Apple and Microsoft products. It is impossible to tell, but if the Sony CD DRM had not been badly implemented, and had not been labeled a "rootkit" by folks strongly against all DRM, perhaps all CDs sold today would have the same sorts of protection as Sony tried to sell. Be careful with broad statements about "its my property" because the law is not as clear or settled as people think. It is possible that Apple and/or Microsoft will add DRM to their formats. It is not possible that FLAC will ever add it, as the goal of FLAC precludes it. Just as there is nothing to prevent someone from making a package that has better compression than FLAC and calls it something like AlmostFree lossless audio codec. -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
