markshuttleworth.com— There are some ideas that are broken, but attractive enough to some people that they are doomed to be tried again and again.DRM is one of them.
Apr 7, 2007View in Crawl 4
Pandora's content is DRM'ed. Not (just) because the RIAA likes it, but also because many of the people working for Pandora are musicians themselves, and actually want people to use their service to find more music to buy to support those artists, not just as a convienient way to copy songs from their catalog.
If DRM doesn't work, why is Macrovision worth 2.2BN? They've been doing copy protection longer than we've all been debating it, and it seems quite successfully.DRM does work; you just have to understand the goal. It's not supposed to stop piracy but to limit it enough to be worth the investment. It's kind of like illegal counterfeiting of currency. The government cannot stop counterfeiting completely, but they do enough that the dollar is still worth something. They use special papers, printing presses, gold ribbons, etc to make the dollar harder to copy. People still do it, but not as bad as they would if you could simply hit print on a xerox machine. DRM will never be 100% effective but that doesn't matter. It just needs to be good enough. As long as it's worth the cost of investment they'll keep making it.
"My favorite subscription, rhapsody, has less of a free trial (25 free songs), but it is probably the best option for usability and diversity of music."Sounds great! Is there some quick and easy way I can put the music from my subscription on my iPod?No? Ok fine, but is there at least some more cumbersome way I can do it without losing quality or filling up my iPod with massive sized files?No?I see...Wake me up when the music industry is interoperable.
$5 says more iPod users use Limewire. Anyway, it's too bad that no one gives a flying f**k about what Shuttleworth says, although I personally think he's a great guy, going for a great cause, and is right about DRM here.
@lukas88 You posturing liar. why would you ever trade "all the music you could ever want for $0" a month with "all the music you could ever want [out of a limited selection, that plays on a limited amount of devices] for $10 a month"? You don't know jack. Quit pretending like you do.
stop getting ur botz to pirate hate on me u gun grabber!to see which issue this pUssIE junkyarddawg is gun grabbing on just look at the articles we have both commented on with the key words "worse than the Clinton ban" I don't spam I am a real person and junk has bots that bury at his command!
Junkyarddawg,You miss the point.It affects me because I like to archive all my msuic purchases in non-DRM'd OGG vorbis, which isn't always easy to do.Of course, anybody with an overly hard-lined and biased mind will fail to see this, hopefully you are not one of those people.(To those that modded this guy up, think next time!)
cquinndApr 8, 2007
Pandora's content is DRM'ed. Not (just) because the RIAA likes it, but also because many of the people working for Pandora are musicians themselves, and actually want people to use their service to find more music to buy to support those artists, not just as a convienient way to copy songs from their catalog.
snarfyApr 8, 2007
If DRM doesn't work, why is Macrovision worth 2.2BN? They've been doing copy protection longer than we've all been debating it, and it seems quite successfully.DRM does work; you just have to understand the goal. It's not supposed to stop piracy but to limit it enough to be worth the investment. It's kind of like illegal counterfeiting of currency. The government cannot stop counterfeiting completely, but they do enough that the dollar is still worth something. They use special papers, printing presses, gold ribbons, etc to make the dollar harder to copy. People still do it, but not as bad as they would if you could simply hit print on a xerox machine. DRM will never be 100% effective but that doesn't matter. It just needs to be good enough. As long as it's worth the cost of investment they'll keep making it.
Closed AccountApr 8, 2007
"My favorite subscription, rhapsody, has less of a free trial (25 free songs), but it is probably the best option for usability and diversity of music."Sounds great! Is there some quick and easy way I can put the music from my subscription on my iPod?No? Ok fine, but is there at least some more cumbersome way I can do it without losing quality or filling up my iPod with massive sized files?No?I see...Wake me up when the music industry is interoperable.
schoate09Apr 8, 2007
$5 says more iPod users use Limewire. Anyway, it's too bad that no one gives a flying f**k about what Shuttleworth says, although I personally think he's a great guy, going for a great cause, and is right about DRM here.
phaedApr 8, 2007
@lukas88 You posturing liar. why would you ever trade "all the music you could ever want for $0" a month with "all the music you could ever want [out of a limited selection, that plays on a limited amount of devices] for $10 a month"? You don't know jack. Quit pretending like you do.
chancelonestarApr 12, 2007
@@@@ JunkYardDawgieDawgStop Pirate Hating!
chancelonestarApr 16, 2007
stop getting ur botz to pirate hate on me u gun grabber!to see which issue this pUssIE junkyarddawg is gun grabbing on just look at the articles we have both commented on with the key words "worse than the Clinton ban" I don't spam I am a real person and junk has bots that bury at his command!
chancelonestarApr 16, 2007
Lonestar vs. Junkyard 2008!
travelsonicApr 16, 2007
Junkyarddawg,You miss the point.It affects me because I like to archive all my msuic purchases in non-DRM'd OGG vorbis, which isn't always easy to do.Of course, anybody with an overly hard-lined and biased mind will fail to see this, hopefully you are not one of those people.(To those that modded this guy up, think next time!)