Vista's restrictions highlight digital rights debate
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| But the call has touched a nerve with observers and advocates, and
| EMI is reportedly in talks with online music services to offer
| DRM-free music.
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| Even Microsoft founder Bill Gates has said DRM is too complex for
| most people.
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| In a meeting with prominent technology bloggers at Microsoft's
| headquarters in Redmond, Wash., on Dec. 14, 2006, Gates reportedly
| recommended that people simply rip their music tracks from CDs if
| they wanted to transfer songs between devices or computers.
|
| "I think DRM will probably eventually go away," FAD Research's
| Punnett said.
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/tech/vista-digitalrights.html
Related:
There Ain't No Such Thing as a Free Lunch
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| So far from being an impediment
| to so-called "online piracy," it's DRM itself that keeps
| fueling it and driving it forward.
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http://preview.baens-universe.com/articles/salvos6
iTunes DRM Inspires People to Pirate Content
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| BitTorrent Inc president and co-founder, Ashwin Navin says that iTunes'
| DRM is "a time bomb waiting to happen," and that it will inspire
| people to pirate content. The irony is that his company is about to
| launch a video store that heavily implements Microsoft?s Windows DRM.
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http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-inc-itunes-drm-inspires-people-to-pirate-content/
MPAA: Frustrated Consumers Will Pirate
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| The MPAA's Brad Hunt outlined some of the ways the MPAA is working
| to standardize content protection controls in the age of digital
| home networking. But he also acknowledged that piracy is the
| consumer's answer to the content industry's inability to provide
| a simple digital-rights-management solution.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20061016/tc_zd/191502
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