daringfireball.net— Translation from PR-speak to english of selected portions of Macrovision CEO Fred Amoroso’s Response to Steve Jobs’s 'Thoughts on Music'.
Feb 16, 2007View in Crawl 4
Agreed, a very accurate translation. I have yet to see any proponent of DRM who has convincingly explained how it actually benefits the consumer rather than the corporations- kudos for Gruber for demolishing this attempt.
Everyone, I urge you to call Macrovison's Music and Video Technologies Section. 408-562-8400 (<a class="user" href="http://www.macrovision.com/company/locations/us/index.shtml)">http://www.macrovision.com/company/locations/us/index.shtml)</a> in response to:"Similarly, consumers who want to consume content on only a single device can pay less than those who want to use it across all of their entertainment areas — vacation homes, cars, different devices and remotely. Abandoning DRM now will unnecessarily doom all consumers to a “one size fits all” situation that will increase costs for many of them."As they are not in control of pricing for that media, how can they tell us about price drops in single use media? And while I realize that it doesn't say anything about price drops, how the world can they believe that paying multiple times for the same content can be fair, which is the only other possibility?I own a PC, an iPod, a Zune, soon to have a 360, and I want a CD copy. I have to pay $50-75 for one damn CD? f**k that. If anything, piracy will become more popular, which is, if I grasp the term correctly, redundant.
jhollingtonFeb 16, 2007
As always, John Gruber gets right to the point very succinctly in clearing up the FUD that surrounds the various industry proponents of DRM.
kerrigoreFeb 16, 2007
Agreed, a very accurate translation. I have yet to see any proponent of DRM who has convincingly explained how it actually benefits the consumer rather than the corporations- kudos for Gruber for demolishing this attempt.
Closed AccountFeb 17, 2007
Everyone, I urge you to call Macrovison's Music and Video Technologies Section. 408-562-8400 (<a class="user" href="http://www.macrovision.com/company/locations/us/index.shtml)">http://www.macrovision.com/company/locations/us/index.shtml)</a> in response to:"Similarly, consumers who want to consume content on only a single device can pay less than those who want to use it across all of their entertainment areas — vacation homes, cars, different devices and remotely. Abandoning DRM now will unnecessarily doom all consumers to a “one size fits all” situation that will increase costs for many of them."As they are not in control of pricing for that media, how can they tell us about price drops in single use media? And while I realize that it doesn't say anything about price drops, how the world can they believe that paying multiple times for the same content can be fair, which is the only other possibility?I own a PC, an iPod, a Zune, soon to have a 360, and I want a CD copy. I have to pay $50-75 for one damn CD? f**k that. If anything, piracy will become more popular, which is, if I grasp the term correctly, redundant.
consonanceFeb 17, 2007
Looking at crap through rose-colored glasses only makes the crap look less brown.
fracture98Feb 17, 2007
There's your problem. You need to look back.
otheliosFeb 17, 2007
DRM - helps make the rich get 'richer' and keeps the powerful in power
fracture98Feb 17, 2007
Which explains the increased use of NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System). Oh, and what do you know... it's open source. Go figure. <a class="user" href="http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Main_Page">http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Main_Page</a>
weberikFeb 19, 2007
Awesome:You moron's