Everyone is saying DRM is dead for music, and EMI is in crisis, and in panic has decided maybe they are right and is now tyring to see if they can sell some digital music after the failure of iTunes DRM.
But at the same time the industry knows it needs copy protection on DVDs and consumers are happily buying HDCP TVs and every manufacturer is selling them. Why music one thing and films another... that makes no sense... The herd thinking is often wrong... * Suppose you created a format which was 24bit recordings so it is "better than cd quality".. * And suppose you embedded lots of text and images in the files so you can see words and pics and documents and stories in a whole new experience that goes far beyond todays mp3 files * And suppose the files are playable on a variety of devices like portable ipods and hi quality boxes like the transporter Now suddenly you have something that consumers really want and there are no files like it in the world and ripping Cd's can not compare.... All of a sudden people will buy that. It's not like crappy iTunes DRM that gives you worse quality that you can get from ripping a CD but with restrictions... OK DRM is not perfect and can be broken but that can be made hard and dangerously illegal. A new high quality format creates a lot of digital files which only exist in DRM standard and anyone who has them is breaking the law... unlike CDs which can be legally scanned... you could never have a file sharing web site with these files unprotected... -- willyhoops ------------------------------------------------------------------------ willyhoops's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10563 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34928 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
