cliveb;347353 Wrote: > There's another philosophical point which hasn't been raised in this > thread: > > You may or may not believe that DRM is a bad thing and should be > resisted - that is everyone's priviledge. But let's suppose for the > sake of argument that Slim Devices are in the camp that is against DRM. > (I think given Slim Devices' history, this is a not unreasonable > supposition). Then even if it were possible for them to support it > (both technically and legally), to do so is in some way "sleeping with > the enemy". It would be philosophically hypocritical. The more useful > devices there are which do not support various DRM schemes, the more > likely it is that those schemes will die.
Hmmm... does this mean that selling a pair of headphones that are compatible with an ipod is also philosophically hypocritical? I hate DRM but I like my ipod. I actually bought it because it played M4A files. I already had loads that I'd already ripped - after moving from MP3, dabbling with WMA and setting with AAC. I respect that other's decisions will have been different. I have no music that is protected by DRM and I stopped buying from the iTunes store once I couldn't easily recover unprotected files from my purchases. I would applaud a plug-in that would help people play DRM protected files on their equipment (it helps show how silly DRM is). I don't feel that anyone who wants to enable an open extensible platform such as the original Slim team produced will begrudge other people extending (or wanting to extend) that platform to play their bought and paid for DRM protected files. I felt quite sad to see some of the less than constructive comments of the anti DRM camp in this thread. Now since the original Slim team sold up and are unlikely to be feeling the credit crunch quite so badly as the rest of us their philosophy is clear - but no longer relevant I guess... :-) -- Amnesiac ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Amnesiac's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16314 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53460 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
