Re: [backstage] Thoughts on DRM podcast.

2007-03-25 Thread James Cridland
I'll not reply to all of that, but one thing is worthwhile saying... On 3/19/07, David Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The iPlayer will have crap on it, in part because of this: the content providers do not want their content to be visible where you shouldn't get it; so you should only

Re: [backstage] Thoughts on DRM podcast.

2007-03-25 Thread David Woodhouse
On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 16:44 +0100, James Cridland wrote: I think we both agree. IP restrictions (generally) work, and they are forms of DRM, however you look at it (it's a rights management tool). However, this only works for streaming media; not for downloadable files. I'm not entirely sure

Re: [backstage] Thoughts on DRM podcast.

2007-03-19 Thread David Woodhouse
On Sat, 2007-03-10 at 17:46 +, James Cridland wrote: I think I was trying to say (I'm sometimes not very lucid) that home piracy in the 1980s didn't have a vast effect, mainly because of the physical effort required in buying video cassettes, copying cassettes onto other cassettes and

Re: [backstage] Thoughts on DRM podcast.

2007-03-10 Thread James Cridland
While I know we've done this to death, and that life may be moving on from a DRM discussion on here, could I just clarify the comments attributed to me? On 3/5/07, David Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was particularly concerned to see that someone (I believe it was James) was allowed to

[backstage] Thoughts on DRM podcast.

2007-03-05 Thread David Woodhouse
I've just watched the DRM podcast and I have to admit I was very disappointed. It seemed to digress into a pie-in-the-sky discussion about changing the licensing model and even changing the law, rather than concentrating on how ineffective the proposed use of DRM would actually be. I was

Re: [backstage] Thoughts on DRM podcast.

2007-03-05 Thread Steven Cook
PLEASE TAKE ME OFF THIS LIST [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've filled in the unsubscribe form four time On 3/5/07, David Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just watched the DRM podcast and I have to admit I was very disappointed. It seemed to digress into a pie-in-the-sky discussion about