Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> ____/ Mark Kent on Wednesday 08 August 2007 18:22 : \____
>
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> ____/ Mark Kent on Wednesday 08 August 2007 16:48 : \____
>>>
>>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>>> Survey says: only DRM-free music is worth paying for
>>>>>
>>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>>| One of the largest surveys of music consumers to closely examine the
>>>>>| question of Digital Rights Management (DRM) has an important two-part
>>>>>| message for the music industry. The first is that DRM is definitely
>>>>>| turning consumers off music sales, and charging them extra to get rid of
>>>>>| it may be an uphill battle. The second message is that knowledge of DRM
>>>>>| and its problems is spreading fast.
>>>>> `----
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
> http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070805-survey-says-only-drm-free-music-is-worth-paying-for.html
>>>>>
>>>>> A plot by software makers to create platform lock-ins?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This is very important, because it undermines one of the few lock-in
>>>> areas which Microsoft were hoping would keep it in business taxing
>>>> people going forward, equally, it shoots canyon-wide gaping holes in the
>>>> claims of the BBC Trust that DRM is required; the fact is that nobody
>>>> wants it, and that they're wasting /my/ money paying the Microsoft
>>>> people for a Microsoft-only Microsoft iPlayer.
>>>
>>> Will you be in London to protest by any chance? The arrogant Softies won't
>>> mind, but a Green Party MP will speak and generate some press coverage.
>>>
>>
>> I'd like to go, but unfortunately, I will be in Derbyshire on that
>> particular day, neither particularly near Manchester nor near London. I
>> notice on the digg site that there are still buffoons who honestly
>> believe that Microsoft will write a client for some operating system
>> other than Windows, and will support it, keep it going with all choices,
>> make it work on mobile phones, on web tablets, etc. etc.
>>
>> Some of these people posting comments have to be the least well informed
>> people I've ever had the displeasure to encounter.
>
> One person in Digg talked about doing a project to have iPlayer work in Linux.
> One has it running in a hypervisor (Windows license.... not the Basic edition
> even, due to the EULA)... then saying that 'iPlayer works in Ubuntu'... these
> people do more harm than good (Wine keeps some native/ports of games away for
> the same reason). I told them this.
Wow, they are foolish.
>
> By the way, Ian Lynch slammed Apple in Digg some hours ago (the OOXML support
> thingie).
>
> Oh, and 5 minutes ago I received a compliment from something whom I don't know.
>
> http://gridtech.blogspot.com/2007/08/best-blog-on-oss-linux-m-and-rest.html
>
> Never been compared to Groklaw before...
>
hehe - well done!
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