"Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> stated in post
6083556.TLXRjZSWph@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on 12/25/06 3:56 PM:
> __/ [ Snit ] on Monday 25 December 2006 22:39 \__
>
>> "John A. Bailo" <jabailo@xxxxxxxxxx> stated in post
>> dqWdnUNi6osN0A3YnZ2dnUVZ_qPinZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on 12/25/06 3:15 PM:
>>
>>> Snit wrote:
>>>
>>>> How long until Linux programs start accepting DRM to be able to get
>>>> content that is protected?
>>>
>>> I listen to Rhapsody using a Firefox plugin on Suse 10.1
>>>
>>> It's protected content.
>>>
>>> Basically when we talk about "protected" content, we talk about "files".
>>> Files are 20th century. There is no need for files. We should talk
>>> about streams.
>>>
>>> I can access 1,000,000 CDs worth of "protected" content from
>>> http://www.rhapsody.com on Linux using the Firefox browser.
>>
>> Streams are great... but they are not the only solution.
>
> Forget about it. DRM will dimish, not prosper. DRM is a disrptuive techlogy,
> like Free software. Unliket Free software, however, it works against people,
> not /for/ them. It robs freedom/liberty, not grants it. The industry is a
> minority; the customers are the vast majority, so they will win. DRM will
> sink...just like Sony's mini-disk.
How long... give a timeline. Should prove to be... interesting.
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