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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> The Danger of DRM
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>| Sony, having acquired Columbia Records in 1988, was now aligned behind
>| music industry interests. It had long sought to replace the open MP3f
>| ormat with its own ATRAC audio compression scheme in order to retain
>| control over digital music files and limit the potential for music
>| file sharing.
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> http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/Q4.06/CEE58947-0EE3-44B1-AAEB-28CDCB307ADE.html
>
> Good and long writeup.
DRM is not the right answer. How to restrict people making copies of
the record they've bought for their own purposes is, in fact, the wrong
question. These companies need to identify the right question - this
will set them on the road to the right answer.
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| Mark Kent -- mark at ellandroad dot demon dot co dot uk |
The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
-- Miguel de Cervantes
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