Goodsounds;347749 Wrote: > Excellent thoughts, there's much to agree with in what you say. > > The recording industry can't do it alone. A standardized DRM could > work, but that would require many greedy parties to cooperate, and how > likely is that to happen? An Apple standard? Microsoft? Neither? > > Your "open standards"/universal compatibility notions are somewhat > idealistic and perhaps a bit naive. Manufacturers will use open > standards when doing so is in their interest, will not do so when it is > not or if it doesn't matter. You can't put a VW transmission on a Ford. > Until recently, you couldn't take your copy of Win Office and run it on > your Mac book, or vice versa. So, we all live and deal with limited or > non-compatibility at times, and that works ok. But I agree that the > platform dependent approach for music has been a complete failure with > DRM, no doubt.
Yup. :) And it's the third parties proprietary and restrictive DRM that is at the heart of all of this. The difference between the VW/Ford and Win/Mac analogies compared to the DRM issue is that I knew your stated restrictions when I purchased them. I'd bet most who purchased DRM music either did not know the limitations of that specific DRM scheme or did not even know DRM was present in the first place. My non-DRM music plays on Win and Mac, and in a VW and Ford. Green eggs and ham??? :) -- toby10 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ toby10's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12553 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53460 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
