yea i know everyone is against drm but thats because drm today sucks today, and because when you buy protected audio content the quality is less than you get from ripping a cd yourself, and the added tags are simple and no better than existing mp3 tags. but with the right software + hardware development all these concerns can go away.
a sim card drm so that when you buy music you can download a version encrypted against a couple of sim cards that you own... and when your srm is visible on the network any device can use it to play your protected files... so maybe that sim sits in your pc or your squeezebox or ipod it doesn't matter.. i am saying this is the holy grail that would cause an explosion of music sales and solve the problem of distributing intellectual property. it's the vision the record companies need to work towards but dont have the skills to implement today they are hostage to one self interested company - Apple. solving these problems are critical to the future. todays it's cd piracy, tomorrow it's films, one day it will be books. so i am saying yea people would buy more music because the record companies will have the confidence to create and distribute better content. And from the users point of view he can't copy his friends collection but all the ripping and tagging and messing about will vanish. then the squeezebox will no longer be a niche product but something anyone with any level of computer knowledge will be able to put into their living room. anyone with the vast skills required to build a real sophisticated drm that makes everyone happy would make a fortune. -- willyhoops ------------------------------------------------------------------------ willyhoops's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10563 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34928
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