On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 22:21:55 -0700, John Bailo wrote:
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> So why do you buy Defective by Design music? To be honest with you, I
>> never encountered any form of DRM, not even in eBooks. Encryption is
>> not for access control, it's for privacy.
>
> It does have one very useful feature and that is it allows subscription
> or rental services.
>
> For example, for only $15 a month I can listen to 1,000,000 CDs on
> Rhapsody (including on Linux using Web Rhapsody).
>
> And now Netflix, using DRM, allows me to to get 24 hours of online movie
> viewing as an adjunct to their DVD deliveries.
>
>
> DRM is actually a very disruptive technology -- because it threatens the
> old school iTunes, sell you a song market, and it challenges the "steal
> a song" bittorrent.
How dos DRM threaten "the old school iTunes"? What is "the old school
iTunes".
>
> It's my kind of technology -- if done right, it lets the consumer win by
> buying only the media they need, at a very low price. Much cheaper
> than buying every CD, DVD, mp3 that you would ever want and far less
> wasteful and redundant.
... like EMIs music, which has no DRM?
>
> The real question is why is Linux so far behind on DRM...
... no one with a service that sells DRMed media has a client that runs
under Linux?
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