____/ 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.
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...
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