amazon.com — Amazon customers are using the e-retailers "tagging" and review systems to warn shoppers that products with DRM (Digital Restrictions Management) are "Defective By Design". Over 15 products have been tagged by a few dozen users in the first few hours. The effort was initiated by anti drm group http://www.DefectiveByDesign.org.
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isurftoomuchOct 27, 2006
@m0lariaIf you want to play a videotape in a VCR, you must record it using the video standard that machine can play, and these are not open standards. If you don't believe me, try building a VHS, Betamax, Hi8, MiniDV, or DVC Pro recorder without licensing the technology and see how far you get.At least with the iPod, you can choose several encoding schemes to use. You can play AAC, MP3, and probably also WAV. OGG isn't supported, but I haven't seen many players that offer it, so you can't single out the iPod.
sotopheavyOct 27, 2006
People should tag iTunes (and other music store) gift cards defective by design if possible. This is a great idea!
raindog469Oct 27, 2006
And Pikmin is soooooooo NOT Lemmings.
raindog469Oct 27, 2006
I kinda wish they kept it to stuff like CD's and DVD's where some are actually defective by design and others are unencrypted/not protected. I mean, EVERY device that plays DVD's or encrypted WMA files or has an HDMI jack (I even see some HDMI cables in there) is going to end up getting tagged, never mind the Zune and all the iPod variants. It might raise awareness but I'd like to actually use it as a shopping guide to tell me which CD's to avoid and which DVD's have Macrovision on them and therefore won't play on our MCE laptop's TV output.At that rate, what someone else suggested with an "EffectiveByDesign" tag almost makes more sense.
refragOct 27, 2006
Good point about Itunes gift cards. But, they shouldn't tag Ipods as defective by design since you can use one very happily without any restricted (DRM) media on it.
Closed AccountOct 27, 2006
i will probably get dug down for this (and by saying that, i guarantee it), but...is it just me or is everyone that connected the ipod and drm getting dug down? face the facts people: the ipod is designed to play drm'ed files. digital rights management means defective by design. some have mentioned burning the songs to cds, but what about songs too long for a cd (> 74 minutes)? what about the videos from itunes?either there are industry shills in this thread or alot of mac fanboys.
devoinregressOct 27, 2006
Oh come on. The iPod doesn't limit you to DRM. What I want to see is what CD's I can rip and the severity of the DRM on the CD or DVD.I have never touched DRM music and I hopefully never will have to. In one of my classes we were talking about the zune P2P capabilities and the restrictions witch only apply to DRM music. Maybe the zune will help encourage DRM free music so people can swap easier.Being limited by DRM is one thing. Having the capability to play DRM is another. Just because the iPod can play DRM music doesn't mean you have to use DRM on it.
devoinregressOct 27, 2006
I use iTunes all the time and never touch the music store (well I go to the podcasts).
bubba9999Oct 27, 2006
On the flip side, it would be helpful to see media that is non-DRM crippled tagged as such.
jmonkeyNov 11, 2006
Support bleep.com. Higest quality music downloads, no DRM. I don't work for them, just a fan.
nimd4Dec 6, 2006
Tnx !! :)