On 15/06/07, Sean Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ian is absolutely correct. It is extremely easy for those outside of media-land to tell us how we should be running our businesses without having walked a few miles in our shoes and being exposed to the whole messy compliancey process.
It takes people outside the "media-land" as you put it because the people inside are too ignorant of technology to understand it. If media people had known even the very basics of how a PC works then we would never have had DRM in the first place. If you just knew how the current (and previous) generations of CPUs operated even at a very high abstracted, and simplified level. If you just knew what a computer program actually is and how they work. If you just knew what a compiler does to your program when you feed it in one end and take the runnable program out the other. It is the complete ignorance of technology demonstrated by the media industry that has caused this problem. And time and time again they continue to make the same mistakes. This information is readily and freely available yet media people prefer to decide what they want and assume it is achievable. NEWS FLASH: The laws of mathematics will NOT change to suit your business plans. Andy -- SELECT * FROM remarks WHERE witty=1 LIMIT 1 - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
