____/ The Ghost In The Machine on Tuesday 11 September 2007 19:03 : \____
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, yttrx
> <yttrx@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote
> on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:53:53 GMT
> <BKzFi.1317$vq6.688@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> Phil <me@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/09/microsoft_appli.html
>>>
>>> The article does say it is an indelible digital watermark, so it looks
>>> like the headline was meant to attract attention. However, it also
>>> describes the concept of a player that will refuse to play titles
>>> without a watermark.
>>>
>>> Philip
>>
>> They called their last two DRMs uncrackable as well.
>>
>> Whatever.
>
> Indeed...since someone will simply go after the weak link,
> namely, the player's checking code.
>
> Whoops.
You wrote a long essay about that before. :-)
Well, FWIW, I've just been seeing online shops whose selling point is no DRM.
You can't compete with DRM-free choices. You just can't. See how Amazon's (?)
sales jumped about 300% when they moved to MP3 downloads.
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>> -----yttrx
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