Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Microsoft still has Lat Am Music industry in its hands
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| Of course some evil people could quickly jump to the wrong conclusion and may
>| think that Microsoft has the local music industry in its pocket, but of
>| course we have no proof to say that, they are all acting in the best
>| interests of the consumers, probably. But someone should point out that all
>| these firms are strangely going against the anti-DRM wave that is sweeping
>| the developed world.
> `----
>
> http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=41037
>
> DRM and open source are the great divide
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| DRM is at the heart of the BBC iPlayer story. It is at the heart of Apple?s
>| iTunes monopoly.
> `----
>
> http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1217
>
>
Interesting remark:
"Rather than asking whether DRM is moral, legal, good or bad, what if we
could find a DRM-free business model which spun money for content
producers at least as well as open source does for software?"
But it does appear to confuse commoditisation of software (admittedly a
creative work) with commoditisation of art.
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