It seems to me that it would be more beneficial to see if Apple will sell single-user licenses for their Quicktime plug-in mentioned on wiki. Then create an intermediate stream layer between the Quicktime plug-in and the normal server plug-in interface. Then folks could choose to use/pay for it on an as-needed/wanted basis.
DRM won't ever go away, and though it's causing me headaches, being the holder of some patents and lots of copyrights myself, I certainly appreciate the need, particularly for the creatives. Though in the music business it certainly has been proven by a few groups that distributing stuff cheaply and unprotected/DRM'd generates more net revenues for them than distributing through the major channels. Most of those bands ALREADY had/have a following though, the Catch-22 is that you have to get in bed with the publishers and distributors to create an audience, and by then it's hard to unwind. -- tlp [164kb MP3 encoded library (wish FLAC had been around when I did most of my ripping oh so long ago) -> PC -> 100 Mb network -> SB3 -> Denon 3805 (used mainly as a pre-amp / DSP) -> Speakercraft BB1265 running whole-house audio, rack of assorted amps, mostly older Carvers or Sunfires -> bi-amp'd Paradigm Reference Studio 100 V.3's, CC-570, ADP-470's, and my own make of electrostatics (hence the rack of Amps).] Terry ------------------------------------------------------------------------ tlp's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8459 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29626 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
