You have misunderstood my point. In summary - I highly doubt DRM affects the situation as much as you are making out.
I don't share files directly with my friends (DRMed or otherwise) I doubt many other people do either. There are many reasons for this... * Poor upload speeds on broadband (particularly for big files we're probably talking about) * People don't take their laptops/memory sticks/devices/whatever to social occasions * Ad-hoc networking isn't as straight-forward to non-techies as OS vendors would like to make out * Its too easy to get files from elsewhere (example: torrents) So, we're left with me recommending things to my friends (and vice-versa) then obtaining the 'things' from the path of least resistance - this may be iPlayer or it may be torrents, but certainly not me giving them the 'things'. J On 01/11/2007, Dave Crossland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 01/11/2007, Jason Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Is this not what would happen with iPlayer? "Hello Jim, I enjoyed Spooks > on > > iPlayer last night", "Really Jason? I'll go and watch that on my > iPlayer, > > cable catchup, or whatever without the hassle of cracking the DRM out of > the > > WMV file and working out how to get it off your computer via a slow ADSL > > upload speed or taking our laptops to the pub". > > That is the nasty situation that the DRM in the iPlayer tries to set up, > yes. > > -- > Regards, > Dave > - > 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]/ >
