[backstage] RE: [backstage] RE: [backstage] RE: [backs tage] £1.2 billion question (or RE: [backsta ge] BBC Bias??? >Click and Torrents)
> On 06/02/07, Andrew Bowden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And yet it's still used... > > Doesn't that say something? > It says that record execs are stupid, but we all knew that already. I was going more for a "it might be broken by some, but it's good enough for 'purpose'". In other words, there's people out there who currently know it's being hacked, and don't care enough about it being hacked because it's not making a huge dent on them. In fact, I'd go as far as saying the fact that people are hacking DRM systems, is more than likely to be persuading some in the industry that even stricter systems are needed! - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
[backstage] RE: [backstage] RE: [backstage] RE: [backs tage] £1.2 billion question (or RE: [backsta ge] BBC Bias??? >Click and Torrents)
]Those watching the DRM debate will be interested to see the latest music industry developments which will presumably set the precedent for download video bus models. Last week's Music Week (the weekly UK music industry trade paper) led with the headline reporting from "Midem (the annual industry trade fest) - "Times up for DRM" reporting on (some of) the industry's frustration with its restrictions predicting that one major label would "break free shortly and go DRM free. http://www.flickr.com/photos/jemstone/376309108/ However, bear in mind that this is still a fringe view. However quite a growing fringe, according to MW. Paid content has a report of the debate. http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/midemnet-mpaa-riaa-cea-execs-clash-over-drm-hardware-controls/
[backstage] RE: [backstage] RE: [backstage] RE: [backs tage] £1.2 billion question (or RE: [backsta ge] BBC Bias??? >Click and Torrents)
> With this bunch, I seem to be doing perfectly fine at the > moment getting high (enough) quality DRM-free, legit copies > of the stuff I want to listen to. And as a last resort, many > 'hard copy' chart CDs from hmv.co.uk/play.com/cdwow/etc come > in at a similar cost to iTunes, sometimes cheaper. But that > kind of defeats the point, somewhat I know. Funnily enough I never download files - partly because of the quality, partly because of the price, partly because of the DRM and partly because I actually like having those nice silver things floating around my house. Of course people like that are a dying breed - supposedly. It will be interesting in a few years time once a few MP3 players have died, and people have had chance to lose their entire music collection in spectacular fashion due to hard disk failures and so on. Still like the humble CRT which for my money outranks an LCD any time, I guess I'm just living on very borrowed time! - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
