Precisely. WHatever DRM might be in place now... there is a good chance it will be broken in the very near future.
Another related issue is CBC programming and this of course spills into CTV, Global, etc. They have tried to erect "walls" which means if you take a trip and want to see something while out of the country... forget it. If you want to copy it to your hard drive while say visiting an internet cafe forget it. This means if you are camped by the lake forget it. There are open formats like Vorbis and I think we need to be demanding that the programming they put on line is available in vorbis. Here is another issue... what of the Calgary Public Library? I can borrow from 1000's of books and DVD's. However even though they "say" they have an online service and even though as the tax payer I have paid for this... its not available to me. Note that while the partron pays I think $25 bux for a library membership... the taxpayer forks over at least 5x this. Of course we all know the taxpayer pays a hefty chunk for CBC. Well - we've paid for it... so why can't we have open access to it? In the past if we want to tape a TV program so we can show it to a friend or watch it at another time we had the right to so this. As we go digital we're losing our rights Do we have any lawyers who can answer this? Does copyright to say a DVD allow whoever owns the copyright to deny me the right to watch the DVD on my linux machine? Does CBC have the right to force me to fork over cash to microsoft? apple? I already have all the copies of windows for instance that I want. But NT4.0 is out of date and I don't think it can access their programming anyways. To me this is like CBC telling me I have to buy an RCA television and if I want to use a Toshiba then I should screw off. What about City Hall? Shouldn't I have the right to access their material on the Calgary web site in Vorbis? Maybe we need to look into some legal challenges. This might be done via small claims and the key is that if we can get a judgment then the city will have no excuses. But of course I'm not a lawyer so I don't know. Opinions? > I this particular situation we should be demanding that the 'flow' is > actually an open format. > > Want happens when their propriatory DRM server is taken off line in a few > years time... you lose access to the media you purchased? > > Simon _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
