cdfreaks.com— Tests were done on portable music players using standard MP3 files and DRM encrypted WMA files. The results. Up to 25% less battery life thanks to DRM sucking the juices as it constantly verifies licenses.
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As far as decrypting DSS goes, it wasn't cracked for 3 years, but that doesn't mean you couldn't have gotten unencrypted digital copies of movies. It just means you'd have to do it by hacking their hardware, so it'd be a lot harder. DeCSS just meant that any schmoe with an internet connection could get unencrypted digital copies of movies.Case in point: xbox games. No one ever cracked their DRM, but if you hack the hardware, you can get an unencrypted version.Same with itunes. No one can remove the drm without tricking itunes into doing it for you.If you want people to actually see your content, you can't protect it from everyone.
Ok with your examples there is toons of flawed logic first off:"Its like complaining to the ice cream truck driver that the $1 you paid for your ice cream cone doesn't cover a lifetime supply of ice cream for all of your friends as well." No its more like you have a liscense to use that ice cream.. plus the delivery man is scared you will share your ice cream so he puts poisin in all the ice cream. second"Sure, lets just clone it. How about that other guy? Sure, no skin off my back. Lets make him one too. In fact, how about I buy the first XBox 360 and just clone one for every one of you out there? Thats totally fair use right? Microsoft shouldn't complain about the fact that they dropped millions of dollars in R&D to create the XBox 360,"All drm does it hurt the consumer... take a good look, you pirate a movie... you dont have the stupid dont pirate movie ads, with cracked software you dont have all the cd checks... all drm is, is a speed bump in piracy...If that were they case then microsoft wouldnt loose any money since after all, you only need to make one and just copy it.....
It's called massaging the data.Make the data show more of what you want it to, than what is actually the case :DNever let cold hard facts get in the way of statistics and sensationalist headlines :P (Rule #1 for most journalists it would appear)
Youve heard of a thing called a rootkit right? and starforce? it cripples your pc even if you bought the games legaly... starforce messed up one of my pcs... and i own the game shure the ice cream would taste the same but there would be stuff in there that will do more harm than good, because to the ice cream man, you WILL give out the ice cream to other people. oh yeah and your "wanna know something? speedbumps work. the average digg user might be able to get around DRM, but im pretty sure the average person cannot." comment really sucks because the average person downloads from someone who already has it done... and if you can pirate music or games and set up a virtual drive... you can get around drm....
I doubt the DRM is to blame for the decrease in battery life. It has much more to do with how much cpu is being used to decode a certain format. For example, H.264 drains more battery on the iPod than does MPEG 4, regardless of DRM. The increased battery use caused by the use of DRM should be very insignificant.Still I hate DRM. You should be able to do what you want with the stuff you rightfully pay for.
This is pretty interesting. I never really considered this before... I think that this is just another reason to justify stripping the DRM off of your media.
Starforce is one of the first company that tried to impose DRM on audio CD's.In 1994, they released a product called "StarLock" which was sold to big labels as a way to protect their investment from piracy. The principle was simple, specially produced CD's had weaknesses in the plastic, at calculated locations.When played in a normal CD player, everything was going fine, as the CD was designed to withhold the speed of a normal player. But if you tried to rip that same CD using a CD-ROM spinning at 2x or more, the disc would develop micro-cracks in its surface, rendering it unusable. In principle, the disc wouldn't break in parts, just have some cracks in it.In reality though, discs that broke in multiple parts inside the CD-ROM were pretty common, and after a few months and thousands of complaints later StarForce was sued and shut down, and the music labels started their quest for a software only solution.So there you go, check out on google for more info about this less known part of DRM history.
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fantasticflanMar 16, 2006
And some people protest against DRM and don't pirate.
manthrax3Mar 16, 2006
As far as decrypting DSS goes, it wasn't cracked for 3 years, but that doesn't mean you couldn't have gotten unencrypted digital copies of movies. It just means you'd have to do it by hacking their hardware, so it'd be a lot harder. DeCSS just meant that any schmoe with an internet connection could get unencrypted digital copies of movies.Case in point: xbox games. No one ever cracked their DRM, but if you hack the hardware, you can get an unencrypted version.Same with itunes. No one can remove the drm without tricking itunes into doing it for you.If you want people to actually see your content, you can't protect it from everyone.
daekenMar 16, 2006
Perhaps you should read up on MSDRM. The content decryption is RC4 and DES, both extremely cheap, especially in hardware.
cerberus047Mar 16, 2006
Ok with your examples there is toons of flawed logic first off:"Its like complaining to the ice cream truck driver that the $1 you paid for your ice cream cone doesn't cover a lifetime supply of ice cream for all of your friends as well." No its more like you have a liscense to use that ice cream.. plus the delivery man is scared you will share your ice cream so he puts poisin in all the ice cream. second"Sure, lets just clone it. How about that other guy? Sure, no skin off my back. Lets make him one too. In fact, how about I buy the first XBox 360 and just clone one for every one of you out there? Thats totally fair use right? Microsoft shouldn't complain about the fact that they dropped millions of dollars in R&D to create the XBox 360,"All drm does it hurt the consumer... take a good look, you pirate a movie... you dont have the stupid dont pirate movie ads, with cracked software you dont have all the cd checks... all drm is, is a speed bump in piracy...If that were they case then microsoft wouldnt loose any money since after all, you only need to make one and just copy it.....
r3zonanceMar 16, 2006
It's called massaging the data.Make the data show more of what you want it to, than what is actually the case :DNever let cold hard facts get in the way of statistics and sensationalist headlines :P (Rule #1 for most journalists it would appear)
cerberus047Mar 17, 2006
Youve heard of a thing called a rootkit right? and starforce? it cripples your pc even if you bought the games legaly... starforce messed up one of my pcs... and i own the game shure the ice cream would taste the same but there would be stuff in there that will do more harm than good, because to the ice cream man, you WILL give out the ice cream to other people. oh yeah and your "wanna know something? speedbumps work. the average digg user might be able to get around DRM, but im pretty sure the average person cannot." comment really sucks because the average person downloads from someone who already has it done... and if you can pirate music or games and set up a virtual drive... you can get around drm....
urbenlegendMar 17, 2006
I doubt the DRM is to blame for the decrease in battery life. It has much more to do with how much cpu is being used to decode a certain format. For example, H.264 drains more battery on the iPod than does MPEG 4, regardless of DRM. The increased battery use caused by the use of DRM should be very insignificant.Still I hate DRM. You should be able to do what you want with the stuff you rightfully pay for.
jeremythomasMar 17, 2006
This is pretty interesting. I never really considered this before... I think that this is just another reason to justify stripping the DRM off of your media.
wardaveMar 17, 2006
We should get a class action suit againts the RIAA for making our MP3 players wear out faster!
nailerrMar 18, 2006
I'm sad to see such a flawed and ill conducted "test" become so heavily dugg. This is how miss-information spreads.
vtwinMar 18, 2006
Starforce is one of the first company that tried to impose DRM on audio CD's.In 1994, they released a product called "StarLock" which was sold to big labels as a way to protect their investment from piracy. The principle was simple, specially produced CD's had weaknesses in the plastic, at calculated locations.When played in a normal CD player, everything was going fine, as the CD was designed to withhold the speed of a normal player. But if you tried to rip that same CD using a CD-ROM spinning at 2x or more, the disc would develop micro-cracks in its surface, rendering it unusable. In principle, the disc wouldn't break in parts, just have some cracks in it.In reality though, discs that broke in multiple parts inside the CD-ROM were pretty common, and after a few months and thousands of complaints later StarForce was sued and shut down, and the music labels started their quest for a software only solution.So there you go, check out on google for more info about this less known part of DRM history.
wadaodiJan 6, 2009
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