> Here in Austria there's a levy on blank media, scanners, printers, > photo copy machines, CD burners ... expressly for compensating content > producers for private non-profit copies of media. At the same time I'm > prohibited from circumventing DRM measures - I'd say the whole mess is > quite at odds with consumers' rights.
I would agree that such a system is rather convoluted. I hope that a solution can be worked out that's fair to everyone. > Slimserver itself is GPLed software, that just doesn't mix too well > with DRM-enabling plugins, which would necessarily have to be closed > source. But you're right of course in saying that this is off topic. Yeah, you're right...there certainly would seem to be some technical difficulties in accomplishing this. I have to think there's a way, however. Perhaps a licensed add-in that's only available to actual SlimDevices customers and is covered by the Squeezebox purchase price. Or maybe even sold on the side to only those who care to add the feature to Slimserver. I know nothing, however, about the licensing requirements/restrictions of the various DRM technologies. Clearly Apple's not all that interested in allowing others into their market, but other companies seem more amenable. > That's is a misunderstanding. In Austria "we" have to pay a certain > small amount quarterly if we own a device that could conceivably > receive the government funded radio (or TV) stations. So "we" are in > fact paying for radio, nothing wrong with it. :) I just wanted to make > the (positive) point that I thought the Yahoo service cheap. Ahh, I see. Sorry for the misunderstanding. > I'd say yes. Actually I'm very happy with my ISP, I've tried them all > (literally) and some charge double the price for worse service. They > support running servers on the connection, reconfigured their router > to accommodate my firewall and don't give me blank looks when I > mention reverse DNS lookups. Thanks for the info, glad to hear you've found a suitable ISP. I don't think I could afford to live in Austria. You've a beautiful country, though--loads nicer than my hot, flat, paved-over, strip-mall-overloaded little town of Gainesville, FL. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
