arstechnica.com — Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, and Real have all been targeted with cease-and-desist letters from Media Rights Technology, which threatens to sue the companies unless they adopt MRT's streamripping protection DRM. No, this isn't a joke!
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hamilton456May 11, 2007
It must be joke. It is ? Isn't it ?
aruskMay 11, 2007
Give em a call, a nice sounding lady answersIf you are interested in Media Rights Technologies, we would be delighted to hear from you.Please call us Toll-Free: (877) 30-MUSIC (68742)
gemminiMay 12, 2007
I hope that, one day, millions of people will go up to the RIAA, MPAA and Media Right's Technologys offices and give them the finger. This is MORONICALLY STUPID!!! VERY f**kING MORONICALLY STUPID!!Who are these people? Prostitutes? Yeah, that's it. They're all f**king prostitutes.And if they win, the world will be f**ked.
prisoner24601May 12, 2007
@ andnever...if it plays/displays through your computer there is always a way to capture itNews flash! Amended notices sent out to include LensCrafters:"Your eyeglass products use an unencrypted molded-silica-based transmission method to redirect streams of all visual content with no encryption whatsoever. Our simple DRM video-buffering head-mounted display can reproduce those same video streams with added protection for content providers whereby images are tested against our database of copyrighted images and a black screen is overlaid when restricted content is viewed by any carbon-based content consumption device (commonly referred to as a "person" or "people" in layman's terms.) Our product is guaranteed effective, and only requires the user to wear several pounds of gear on their head. Furthermore, most tests have proven that the nausea from the 3-second buffer delay is mild and generally harmless unless the user is driving a motor vehicle. Clearly the ongoing sale by LensCrafters of analog/unencrypted "eyeglass" products is a violation of the DMCA."
55isabiglieMay 12, 2007
Wow- yet another example of corporate extortion. Unbelievable. Well this is how it is now- its too hard and costly to make a better mousetrap (ie iPod). Plus you actually have to pay some smart techie's actual *money* (OMG! Money!!) - in the US (WHAT!) to do it and who needs THAT garbage? Much easier to break out the lawyers, cut them in, and make up some ridiculous legal reason why people have to pay you off.Past attempts include: Divx (speaks for itself)- and no not the codec currently using the title as homage to the death of said crooks.Come to think of it, I wonder if this is the same greedy group of morons?
elwoodherringMay 12, 2007
I know about the Cage piece; in fact it's mentioned on that page - at least his name is, and a reference to the recent court case between the Cage estate and Mike Batt. That's one reason why I came up with the page in the first place! I tried to list every kind of unplayable but non-silent musical piece I could think of. I'm not the first to do this either; see <a class="user" href="http://www.herring.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/impossible.pdf">http://www.herring.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/impossible.pdf</a> (PDF file)
digitaldudMay 12, 2007
Actually Vista's sound recorder only records from Mic input.
vikingscoolMar 22, 2008
DMCA is made by Bill Clinton. F--- Bill Clinton for signing the law! DMCA is worse thanprohibition!
vikingscoolMar 22, 2008
Then I can say, "f**k Bill Clinton for signed this stupid DMCA law."