The Smokester;176126 Wrote: > > As you can see from the above it is our opinion that the Microsoft DRM > system does not work and that until such time that something does work > our best endeavours to protect our artists' music will be to include > the usage rights as above and ask our customers to agree to these > rights when making a purchase..."
Linn has already answered it's own concerns Actually there is no necessity for DRM as the content is already fully protected under the current copyright laws. The only problem is to be able to positively indentify the ownership of the material. This can be done with "watermarking" but unfortunately this also alters the content slightly which to me is audiable. There was one occaision when a certain well known broadcasting organisation suggested to the Media organisations that DRM or Encryption was totally unnecessary and counter productive since there would always be a ways to defeat it and it would have to be constantly patched. Much better to watermark the material and use the law courts which is where any individual cases would end up anyway. Much of the video programme material broadcast at the moment is watermarked and no-one appears to have noticed any degradation. They were told in no uncertain terms that if they wished to continue receiving rights to broadcast films they would go back and continue researching DRM and encryption. The media companies own the rights to the material and they are not willing to compromise. MediaPlayer will play the material perfectly well without restrictions if there is no DRM and Vista will do no further checks than XP did. In fact you are likely to notice any performance hit from Vista's checking since by far the most performance is consumed displaying a 3D desktop. The only real issue I have with Vista is its price and why are we in the UK paying the same price in pounds as the States is paying in dollars? I wasn't aware the exchange rate had reached 1:1. Linn would be wise to issue the material at a reasonable price, under UK law obtaining any further agreement with their customers will not make any difference. It is the price that encourages the pirates, if people think they are being ripped off then they will look for alternatives. -- MrStan ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MrStan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1771 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32261 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
