Digital Restrictions Management is a dead end. Consumers don't want it. Hollywood's head-in-sandism on this is beyond pitiful.
DECE is chaired by the very exec who imposed the Sony BMG hidden Windows rootkit on the Amerie record on my shelf, and which fortunately for me was not "interoperable" with my Mac or GNU/Linux computers. For ten years Microsoft has positioned itself as a partner to content providers, only too happy to propose its services while shutting out competitors, the consumer be damned. They can't even bring themselves to support MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 and AAC (while Apple laughs all the way to the bank). A decade later, they are still hoping for a central role in a DRM "ecosystem" which excludes free software. What the studios don't realize (with the exception of Disney, which has a clue) is that consumers have no patience for difficult to use / expensive / incompatible "rights" systems. They already lost patience overpaying for disks with a pointless zoning system and seven guaranteed minutes of copyright information in Greek and Swedish (no offense to my southern annd northern friends). I say, let them hoist themselves on their own petards (the studios, not the Hellenes & Swedes). The longer they put off developing new business models, the greater the risks they take. Sean On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Andy <stude.l...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Is DRM on it's last legs? Not according to this news story: > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7825428.stm > > When we people learn that trying to stop people copying or playing > Audio/Video after a certain date is not possible due to Replay > Attack[1]? > > I'm not sure whether they intend to deploy this both for video and > music. However with DRM Free Music already legally available will > people really stand for not being able to do things they could before? > > Andy > > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replay_attack > > -- > Computers are like air conditioners. Both stop working, if you open windows. > -- Adam Heath > - > 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/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ > - 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/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
