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[News] Xiph.Org Clarifies the Ogg's Value, Another Reason to Avoid DRM/RIAA

  • Subject: [News] Xiph.Org Clarifies the Ogg's Value, Another Reason to Avoid DRM/RIAA
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 04:14:50 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
December 12, 2007: Xiph.Org Statement Regarding the HTML5 Draft and the Ogg
Codec Set

,----[ Quote ]
| Ogg provides a baseline of fully unencumbered, fully open, fully documented, 
| fully royalty-free codecs that are lighter-weight than the contemporary  
| encumbered solutions while offering comparable or superior performance. Ogg 
| is not fantasy or vapourware. It is widely deployed, tested, and reviewed. 
| Ogg has already stood the test of time.   
| 
| [...]
| 
| In the interest of interoperability and to prevent large vendor lock-in to 
| proprietary methods, we support the W3C's desire to adopt the unencumbered 
| technology as the baseline.  
`----

http://xiph.org/press/2007/w3c/

Strategies for a discontinuous future. 
Attention Economy, Micromedia & Media 2.0, Peer Production, Network Economics &
Web 2.0, and Edge Competencies.

,----[ Quote ]
| Let me put it more simply: The Fed is treating this like it's a liquidity 
| crisis. But it's not: the macropocalypse is a deeper problem. Liquidity is 
| drying because the firm is rotting from the very core: the larger economic 
| system is rife with adverse selection, moral hazard, and assorted other 
| flavours of evil.    
| 
| I pointed it out for media a long time ago (ie, my new econ of music paper). 
| But it's just as true for banks. So throwing liquidity at rotten institution 
| is perverse because it destroys the incentives for reform.  
| 
| Imagine if we threw money at record labels, in the hopes that they'd publish 
| better music. What do you think would happen? 
`----

http://www.bubblegeneration.com/2007/12/first-horseman-of-macropocalypse.cfm


Recent:

Nokia to W3C: Ogg is proprietary, we need DRM on the Web

,----[ Quote ]
| But remember, that's not what Nokia is objecting to: they are arguing that 
| Ogg is proprietary (it isn't) and that DRM should be part of a Web standard 
| (it shouldn't).   
`----

http://www.boingboing.net/2007/12/09/nokia-to-w3c-ogg-is.html


Removal of Ogg Vorbis and Theora from HTML5: an outrageous disaster

,----[ Quote ]
| Note that HTML5 in no way required Ogg (as denoted by the word “should” 
| instead of “must” in the earlier draft). Adding this to the fact that there 
| are widely available patent-free implementations of Ogg technology, there is 
| really no excuse for Apple and Nokia to say that they couldn’t in good faith 
| implement HTML5 as previously formulated. Throw your own theory here: DRM, 
| proprietary control, et cetera.     
`----

http://rudd-o.com/archives/2007/12/11/removal-of-ogg-vorbis-and-theora-from-html5-an-outrageous-disaster/
http://tinyurl.com/yp5zm6


Is Nokia Looking for Revenue in the Wrong Places?

,----[ Quote ]
| He proposed that iPod and iTunes was an exception, and would be eclipsed by a 
| Nokia/Microsoft (MSFT) partnership in short order.  
| 
| [...]
| 
| That conversation echoes the one that nearly every music player manufacturer 
| on the planet has had to date. And Microsoft's DRM and poor business 
| decisions has managed to undermine the business of every single one of them, 
| especially now that Microsoft's Zune competes with them and yet isn't 
| compatible with Microsoft's own PlaysForSure music software.    
`----

http://seekingalpha.com/article/56822-is-nokia-looking-for-revenue-in-the-wrong-places?source=yahoo

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