RIAA and MPAA Developing Domain-Based DRM 272
An anonymous reader points out news that the music and movie studios are attempting to develop a new type of DRM that would allow customers more flexibility in playing content on multiple devices. The Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE) would establish a list of devices in your personal "domain" (unrelated to web domains), and minimizes or removes restrictions within that domain. TechCrunch summarizes DECE and notes that many of the big corporations have decided to support it.
"The ecosystem envisioned by Singer et al revolves around a common set of formats, interfaces and other standards. Devices built to the DECE specifications would be able to play any DECE-branded content and work with any DECE-certified service. The goal is to create for downloads the same kind of interoperability that's been true for physical products, such as CDs and DVDs. Where it gets really interesting, though, is the group's stated intention to make digital files as flexible and permissive as CDs, at least within the confines of someone's personal domain. Once you've acquired a file, you could play it on any of your devices -- if it couldn't be passed directly from one DECE-ready device to another, you'd be allowed to download additional copies. And when you're away from home, you could stream the file to any device with a DECE-compatible Web browser."
qestion (Score:5, Interesting)
Isn't that REALLY close to the permission system Apple has for Fairplay?
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Yeah, except that I think this system allows you to register as many of your own personal devices as you want.
I'll be interested to see if they follow through with their "goals"...but it's still going to be DRM, so the best-case scenario is still a bad case in my book.
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apple allows up to five, and that limit is set by the RIAA, and MPAA.
Communist mentality Music Industry (Score:4, Interesting)
The music 'industry' really needs to rethink their 20th-century mentality. Where one monolithic entity (posing as several individual global corporations) controls culture for everyone by distributing entertainment 'packages' from one central source. And by bringing the full force of state-controlled legal violence against anyone stepping outside of this Stalinist framework. There really is no difference in the mind-set between the RIAA and Soviet Orwellian Ministry of Culture. Neither of them work well in the real world; which consists of real people and real culture that can't be controlled by a centralized authority.
The only thing that government-controlled (or corporate-controlled) culture does is create a vast and illegal underground counter-culture. Artists end up imprisoned or spending all their creative energy hiding, fighting, or defending their work against the corporate Stalinist cement-heads. Society suffers, people suffer, other people and nations advance and your culture and people don't.
Culture and Art comes from the bottom up, not the top down. Especially in an era of inexpensive and widely available technology like high resolution digital video cameras, software audio mixing studios, and internet high-speed media distribution.
My advice is to stop sucking on Hollywood's Grand Tetons, get some gear, learn some literary and music theory, create your own works, distribute them discretely among your own trusted people, and ignore the RIAA/MIAA.
And for goodness sake's don't let the cement-heads steal your culture. We need to completely change our mentality from believing that artistic success is being a 'rock star' to a mentality where being an artistic success consists of being able to keep our important and meaningful works of art hidden from Hollywood.
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I've yet to buy a song online because of this.
Re:Whoring are we? (Score:5, Funny)
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Piracy is rampant because it's easy to get stuff for free and not get caught. It has nothing to do with DRM.
Years of watching people swap 120 minute cassettes of non-DRM'ed Spectrum games (which could be bought for less than $6 each) has made that obvious.
It doesn't matter if the music/games/films are cheap or without DRM as you just can't b
An interesting argument you have there (Score:5, Insightful)
Piracy is rampant because it's easy to get stuff for free and not get caught. It has nothing to do with DRM.
So...if it's easy (and it is), what's the point of the DRM then? All it takes is one bored kid from the Netherlands and item X is now on the net for free. The only people the DRM hassles are the paying customers.
It doesn't matter if the music/games/films are cheap or without DRM as you just can't beat free for a lot of people.
And yet, these people who will never buy item X at any price, but will only accept it for free - the industry counts each one as a lost sale when they do their reports on how much piracy costs.
These people you mention who only like their product for free - how does it hurt the industry if they cannot pirate something? They'd never buy it in the first place. It adds up to zero no matter if they get it for free or not.
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Piracy is rampant because it's easy to get stuff for free and not get caught. It has nothing to do with DRM.
It's actually quite possible to sell people stuff they can get for free (eg., Cable TV, bottled water, DVDs of TV shows.) You just have to add some sort of value to the free product, such as convenience or quality. DRM is backwards, it lessens the value of the paid-for product.
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And people wonder why piracy is rampant? It is because the pirates are the only ones not having to jump through hoops just to watch or listen to the cartels precious IP.
And here all these years I thought it was because you could get music for free! I forgot how it's sooo hard to rip a CD to MP3 and legally play it on all my devices.
Re:Doesn't bother me (Score:5, Insightful)
It shouldn't bother you, either. DRM doesn't affect people who aren't criminals. So don't worry about it unless you're a filthy thief, then you're only getting what you deserve.
If only this were true...
In reality, it only affects the people who don't pirate things.
For example, my copy of Spore restricts my to three installations. That's it. So between my desktop and my laptop, thats two right there. Then, if I have to format one for whatever reason...there's my third. After that, I can't play it if I get a new PC, or if for some reason I have to format again, now I can't play the game I legally BOUGHT and PAID for, without jumping through all kinds of hoops with EA's customer service, with one of those being interrogated like I was a criminal for the reason I needed more than three installs. I PAID for this game!
And then, on the other hand, you have the pirates who got the same release date, didn't pay a dime, and get MORE flexibilty with the product, and can install it on as many PCs they like. It's this kind of comparison that makes people who don't want to steal from the developers (myself included) start to seriously think about pirating in the future.
DRM doesn't prevent piracy. It encourages it.
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It shouldn't bother you, either. DRM doesn't affect people who aren't criminals. So don't worry about it unless you're a filthy thief, then you're only getting what you deserve.
You were modded funny, but I am worried that you were being serious. The problem with DRM is not only its inconvenience, but its inherent anti-competitiveness. Since the whole idea of DRM is based on security in obscurity, it is impossible to create cross-platform DRM, thereby tying people to one platform and preventing them from trying others, like Linux, or even switching between other mainstream operating systems.
I say that instead of targeting pirates (unrelated: copyright infringement is comparable to
Fine in theory... (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Fine in theory... (Score:5, Insightful)
I personally wouldn't by any nanny-device like this. I bought the file; I want to play it on whatever the fsck I want to without having to ask permission like a little child in school having go to the bathroom.
Re:Fine in theory... (Score:5, Interesting)
Thank you, but my devices already interoperate perfectly in my "domain": it's the free domain. Nothing beats freedom, you know.
Someone needs to spell it out for these guys: selling digital media will cease to be a business in the near future. The digital ecosystem does not need the middle-man, the printing press or recording studio of days gone by. You might keep some control over software or things like that by means of DRM (think consoles), but selling audio/video media is a dying business.
Re:Fine in theory... (Score:5, Insightful)
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The record companies offer another service, marketing. Granted, many people are successful by advertising their own tunes online via youtube, myspace, etc. However, not everyone is good at selling themselves. I think the record companies could adapt to become marketing companies and retain a revenue stream.
The other problem we have is that everyone is in a rush to get rid of physical media thinking it's a good thing. There are down sides. With DRM, we will only get a few companies selling content which
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"middle man" is off-topic (Score:2, Insightful)
This whole "middle-man" meme is a red herring [wikipedia.org]. Even if all writers [nytimes.com] and musicians [cnet.com] start selling directly — rather than through publishers and studios — they will still be concerned about people, enjoying (or otherwise benefiting from) their creations without paying for it.
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One solution is to switch to a different business model -- make your money from touring, and treat everything else as promotional material.
If a few million people have heard your music because it was pirated, or because it was (illegally!) attached as a soundtrack to a funny YouTube video, well, it's hard (impossible?) to buy publicity that good, and you just got it for free.
In fact, there was a great article [salon.com] about this -- basically arguing that because of how ridiculously greedy the publishers and studios
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That's quite true indeed. The major corporation are interested in profit, and they are the only ones who will lose when (not if) the paradigm shifts.
That's because there will always be a marginal value attached to authorship that no copyright law must protect: a musician can tour, a famous author can give lectures etc. I don't think the world will be starved of artistic masterpieces if copyright falls, because I don't think money is the prime motivator for top authors.
Even when it comes to technical works,
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Re:Yes, as flexible as a cd (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Yes, as flexible as a cd (Score:4, Funny)
In addition, the iPod will never support it. There goes 70% of the potential users.
Wait until the next update of your ipod. I can't think of any reason why it wouldn't be technically possible to get this working on an ipod.
Re:Yes, as flexible as a cd (Score:4, Insightful)
In addition, the iPod will never support it. There goes 70% of the potential users.
Wait until the next update of your ipod. I can't think of any reason why it wouldn't be technically possible to get this working on an ipod.
Of course it's technically possible, but when was the last time you saw an iPod with a PlaysForSure logo?
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In addition, the iPod will never support it. There goes 70% of the potential users.
And the largest music store in the US. But that's exactly what this is about, isn't it? Reinventing Fairplay so they can re-establish their cartel... Too bad for them, since to do it, they need a vertically integrated solution like iTunes/iTMS/iPod. Apple makes everything from the hardware all the way down to the QuickTime file format. That's why everyone who attempts to compete with Apple fails. Tougher still: They not only have to make all the pieces to succeed, they have to do a better job of it tha
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Yeah, reminds me of the HDMI thing. In theory, any device capable of outputting HDMI should work with any device capable of receiving HDMI. But due to its complexity in implementation, at least in the first generation devices, it was pretty hit or miss. So you've got a shiny new PS3 and a shiny new TV, but HDMI won't work, and you're stuck doing the digital->analog->digital transcoding for no good reason.
So with this DECE thing, even if users play by the rules, will it actually work?
What if one dev
Re:Fine in theory... (Score:4, Insightful)
So with this DECE thing, even if users play by the rules, will it actually work?
IMHO, the *AA could create a DRM scheme so advanced that it it powered by AI and knows, with 100% success, whether or not you're using content in a method that constitutes fair use...and it would still be bullshit, because no one should be able to tell you what you can do with what you own.
There's a difference between breaking the law, and not having the choice to.
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Maybe instead they could attempt to produce entertaining fiction.
DRM... (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:DRM... (Score:5, Interesting)
For once, an accurate phrase.
The fact that this DECE will be easily crackable (there is nothing that isn't, especially when hackers have an incentive to spite riaa/mpaa), and a complete failure, apparently has been neglected.
I mean haven't these guys learned that renaming DRM doesn't make it any less annoying? Did they forget about that "digital enablement" or whatever it was called?
Sheesh.
Re:DRM... (Score:5, Funny)
my local domain:
my laptop
my hi-fi
my friends laptop
the internets
wait fuck it i don't even need to bother with this new drm the pirate bay drm system works for me
Re:DRM... (Score:5, Interesting)
'So far, the list includes several big-name brands in computers, networking and consumer electronics, but there are some glaring absences, including Apple'
FAIL!
If the lipstick isn't even compatible with your favourite breed of pig, their silly little 'coalition' is just as doomed as all the others before it.
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I find that extremely offensive to the hardworking female lawyers of the RIAA and MPAA. You, sir, are a sexist.
I demand a formal apology.
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I demand a formal apology.
Re:DRM... (Score:4, Funny)
What does Sarah Palin have to do with this?
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She was a prize pig, but only got second place. (VP and beauty contest)
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MMMMmmmmmm......bacon. [Drool]
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How often do you find religion-crazed nutters who arn't hypocritical?
Yes, as flexible as a cd (Score:5, Insightful)
Because I've never taken a cd to a friend's place, used it in someone else's car (or a hire car), or given one away to a friend when I didn't want it any more.
Fuck that, I'll stick to the CD, which I can rip myself.
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Yeah, this sounds like it will have all sorts of problems with things like transferral of goods... things like first sale doctrine will be very hard to use with this system.
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The fact that you'd be forced to purchase a new copy rather than a used copy is a feature, not a bug.
Re:Yes, as flexible as a cd (Score:5, Interesting)
Fuck that, I'll stick to the CD, which I can rip myself.
Yesterday I tried to rip Rolling Stones' "A Bigger Bang" using exact audio copy in burst mode. It didn't work, the drive kept speeding up and down. :(
The disc is copy controlled: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9a/Copy_control_logo.png [wikimedia.org]
Re:Yes, as flexible as a cd (Score:5, Insightful)
That's what you get buying your software/music legally.
Furtunately for me, I download everything.
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The disc is copy controlled: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9a/Copy_control_logo.png [wikimedia.org]"
Give cdrdao a try....I've never come across anything that wouldn't copy.
copied library CD of RS Bigger Bang (Score:2)
I got the local library CD of RS Bigger Bang several years ago and dubbed it using Exact Audio Copy to my Windows PC. No problems with the transfer. Maybe the CD maker is putting some new code in the data stream to prevent people from listening to the music, as you suggested. Have you tried AudioCatalyst or some other ripping program?
Or booting a Linux session from a CD ROM, using Linux audio ripping programs, and then using those MP3 files?
The music is competent, but no different that what the Ro
Take a Break. Have a Quick Crack. (Score:2)
http://everything2.com/e2node/Removing%2520copy%2520protection%2520from%2520audio%2520CDs [everything2.com]
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You're missing the point. Once you get the DECE compliant RFID chip installed under your skin, your friend's DECE compliant car radio will allow you to enjoy it everywhere!
Doesn't that sound great?
Second-hand sales (Score:2)
Not to mention that it pretty much nullifies your ability to sell/give your media to somebody else. No more second-hand CD stores.
(not that the media companies would mind that at all).
DRM is still DRM (Score:5, Insightful)
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The problem with DRM is that DRM requires a server out on the Internet to give me permission to listen to the music, or to watch the movies, I have purchased. Without that server, the content I purchase are little more than a random collection of useless data bits.
Look at those people who foolishly bought into Microsoft's DRM for music. In a short while, Microsoft will be turning off the DRM server, and all the music thus "protected" by Microsoft's DRM will be unusable.
Do you really want to give the RIAA an on/off switch for your ability to listen to your media collection?
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"Do you really want to give the RIAA an on/off switch for your ability to listen to your media collection?"
Precisely why I don't buy anything I can't rip, or can't shift wherever I want to, or sell if I get tired of it.
I'm not interested in "sharing" it with the world. But I want to do whatever the hell *I* want to with it on *my* devices.
in related news (Score:5, Funny)
It's Still DRM...but worse. (Score:5, Interesting)
1. Co-Option! TFA: "it [DECE] could be a very good thing for consumers." Ever heard of the concept of a co-option? The anti-DRM movement has so much public support (outside of
2. More centralization, more big corporations, less privacy, and another chance for IE to redeem itself. TFS: "you could stream the file to any device with a DECE-compatible Web browser" And what exactly does DECE compatability mean? Does this mean my real identity is broadcast when I use a browser? If so, Will it be disabled by default?
3. Use your MP3 player/computer for storage of non-music files? Think again.
TFA: "The caveats: the devices have to be registered electronically to that user, and the copyright holder gets to limit the total number of devices customers may register."
Considering the history of DRM, I wouldn't be surprised if this means both corporations AND whoever cracks their methods gets to see everything.
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Absolutely. The ..AA is attempting to duplicate the commercially successful implementations of DRM. FairPlay seems successful because it works on iPods, and iPods are the music players. AACS seems successful because Blu-Ray has been accepted by the HDTV crowd.
But like anything else, this is a delay tactic. Most iPod customers don't yet understand that someday they may want a music player that isn't an iPod. Some have been burned as they try to move their iTunes music to their non-iPhone cell phones.
Any DECE-compatible Web browser... (Score:5, Insightful)
Unless this form of DRM is radically different from its predecessors, it will only be supported on closed-source browsers, which eliminates Firefox, Chrome, and Konqueror.
I really don't see anything new here - we already have standard formats like mp3 and mpeg-4 (aka XviD) that play on a variety of devices. This new plan looks like a great way for DECE to profit from licensing and certification fees, but not much else.
Web domains? (Score:2)
Insanity (Score:5, Insightful)
Control and trust (Score:2)
Yawn. If you buy into a DRM system you surrender control and trust. It's inevitable that your trust will be broken and the cost of surrendering control will become apparent. They're actually teaching you with these methods why you can't trust them with the keys to your system and the content you buy. My rant [slashdot.org] on this issue is two and a half years old now, and it's as true as ever. DRM won't work. DRM can't work.
It is good though to see yet another technology scammer taking the media giants for yet anot
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What a load of sh*t (Score:2, Funny)
killling the second-hand market (Score:5, Interesting)
Something that always gets overlooked is how this is also an attempt to kill off the second-hand market. As has been said before, their ultimate goals are to get paid for every viewing and listen, and to cut those pesky greedy artists out of the deal entirely.
I, for one (Score:2)
....am not at all interested. There is literally NO value-added here. You can get good prices on digital downloads from places like Amazonmp3.com, and all my music can transfer (wirelessly! instantaneously! more-marketing-phrases-here!) from all my devices to all my other devices.
If they made the music cost waaay less than non-DRMed music, they might have a shot. But I suspect that would only really entice the people who are already buy DRMed music because they don't care about true interoperability any
Beats me how this will work (Score:2)
Unless they can find sufficient clueless morons to buy into this, it'll flop.
For myself, any device or service that restricts my ability to play purchased media in any way I want doesn't have any appeal at all.
Note I said purchased. I *do* purchase my media, all of it, in fact I spend a fair bit of cash on audio purchased online and dvds.
I only buy products which are free of DRM or trivially easy to rip into other, more portable formats. If these guys think my cash will flow endlessly into their restrictive
And within two months... (Score:2)
From China or Korea within two months after DECE is introduced: six or seven players that are "DECE-region-free".
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That long?
New service name - DECE - Internet Technology (Score:3, Informative)
What do you bet that was the original full project name? ;)
The Point being?? (Score:2, Insightful)
Once you've acquired a file, you could play it on any of your devices
Can't I do that anyway? Oh wait...
Fighting the Last War (Score:5, Insightful)
You really have to think that after 10 years of consumers telling the labels and studios what they want, and then voting with their feet when they don't get it, it would have sunk into even the head of the thickest *AA dinosaur. In the annals of colossal stupidity, the last 10 years of IP wars will have to rank pretty near the top.
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You really have to think that after 10 years of consumers telling the labels and studios what they want, and then voting with their feet when they don't get it, it would have sunk into even the head of the thickest *AA dinosaur. In the annals of colossal stupidity, the last 10 years of IP wars will have to rank pretty near the top.
10 years? Try 100.
Radio will kill the live music industry. Vinyl will kill radio and live music. Home taping will kill vinyl, radio and live music. Copying CDs will kill music. MP3s will kill music.
It wasn't true back then and it isn't true now. People want to listen to music, plain and simple. The RIAA know that damn well, they're not that stupid. Quite why they're so keen to describe every new piece of technology as the thing that will eventually kill them, I don't know. Some sort of control thi
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It wasn't true back then and it isn't true now. People want to listen to music, plain and simple. The RIAA know that damn well, they're not that stupid. Quite why they're so keen to describe every new piece of technology as the thing that will eventually kill them, I don't know. Some sort of control thing?
About the only way to
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About the only way to kill music would be something which would kill the human race. However if the current music industry were to die, for any reason, a new one would come into being within a short time.
And the people best equipped to do it would be those who understand how music works.
Note that this may not be the money men in suits at the top - it may be the talent scouts rather nearer the bottom.
Edison cracked it in 1877 (Score:2)
As usual they ignore the obvious fact that it only takes one person to exploit the analogue hole, and after that the internet will take care of the rest. Heck, even if you could shut down the internet data storage technology is rapidly approaching the point where you would be able to carry every piece of music ever recorded in a studio on your key-chain. It's over already, adapt or die.
Re:Edison cracked it in 1977 (Score:4, Informative)
Sound is analog. ""Digital" music is simply a digital encoding of an analog signal, if you convert it back to analog, copy the analog signal, and then re-encode it into digital you will have a digital signal, but this time without whatever bullshit encryption was on it to begin with. Yes, you will get some degradation in the process, but I can guarantee you that this can be made VERY minor, and certainly much less significant than the compression algorithms used to reduce the file size. Any statistical noise can be dealt with by repeating the process and average the result, systematic errors will be no worse than those inherent in the equipment you end up using to listen to it.
Less convenient (Score:2, Insightful)
What does this give me that I don't get with P2P?
No, no, no! (Score:2)
DRM is inherently defective and bad for consumers. (Score:4, Interesting)
Repeat after me: All DRM is inherently defective and bad for consumers. Consider the baseline: completely unfettered media. You can do with it whatever you want.
All forms of DRM add fetters to that situation without giving any additional abilities or functionality. There is absolutely nothing that can be done with DRMed media that cannot be done (in a technical sense) with unfettered media.
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All forms of DRM add fetters to that situation without giving any additional abilities or functionality.
There is the possibility of providing a service through which to re-download the media, as many times as you want.
Granted, it's possible to provide that with completely unfettered media -- so, strictly speaking, it's not the DRM itself that adds this. It is, however, possible for a DRM'd system to have additional capabilities that the non-DRM'd media alone wouldn't have.
So...
All DRM is inherently defective and bad for consumers.
Consider services like Napster et al -- download anything you want that exists in the service for some reasonable monthly fee, less th
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The "same" as CDs (Score:4, Insightful)
In other words, not at all the same as CDs.
nope, no thanks, don't want it. (Score:2)
You continue wasting money on DRM that isn't effective. And I'll continue getting the content I want in the format I want it in.
MPAA and RIAA are obsolete.
certification costs (Score:2)
The goal is to create for downloads the same kind of interoperability that's been true for physical products, such as CDs and DVDs.
No, the goal sounds like being able to charge outrageous licensing fees for "certified" devices, thus helping to extinguish DRM-free players, music sources, etc.
It is unlikely any open source, unencumbered device or software would receive the certification blessing.
My domain for my money... (Score:2)
My Domain for my money transactions is limited to accounts i own and operate plus a few trusted family accounts.
The money is free of DRM to move between these accounts.
Beyond this personal domain, my money is tied up by my DRM and cannot move to Sony, or other RIAA labels without violating federal statues.
Sorry.
Revised sig (Score:2)
How about... (Score:2)
... they just quit treating pirates better than the paying customers and get rid of drm totally?
The only domain I am interested in... (Score:2)
... is the domain of "any bloody thing that I ever want to play it on, any damn time I want to play it, with absofuckinglutely no hassles whatsofuckingever"
Will the hardware mfgrs go for this? (Score:2)
Beware the ulterior motive..... (Score:2)
The RIAA knows damn well that this whole battle has never been about shifting legitimately purchased content between devices in your "domain" (insert your own Seinfeld "master of your domain" joke here). Unfortunately, that is one of the arguments that many (including posters here) have used in the past: "I just want to shift the music I've already paid for (snort) from CD to computer to iPod to [insert device] -- I would never (suppressed giggle), EVER think of downloading it for free (fingers crossed behi
more DRM crap bound to fail. (Score:2)
FlexLM revisited? (Score:2)
How about, We just Buy CD's and do what we want? (Score:2)
Just buy CD's and do what you want with it. Encode it to Flac, Apple Lossless.... etc... copy the disc to a new cd... no DRM no Nothing.
If we let the CD die, we're in trouble. I dont want compressed to shit music. I like my uncompressed audio because i can convert it to any format i want.
The CD is key to our freedom. If everything goes the way of downloadable lossy compressed file formats, we will have lost quality for convience... and the freedom to do with our music as we please.
Buy a CD today. Or atleast
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How about we don't give money to the RIAA bunch? that means you have to be picky with the music you buy. Maybe a campaign is in order to let the independents mark their products with 'No RIAA-evil used in the production of this album'. That way it becomes a little easier to discern it from RIAA poison.
No thanks (Score:2)
If you want my business again you will do 2 things:
1 - remove *all* DRM, both direct and indirect forms of it.
2 - produce product worth my money.
DECE-compatible (Score:2)
Sort of blows me using my ipod eh?
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How about we make sure(that means testing) that if the server is unavailable, the music is unlocked.
That way if the server ever goes out of business, the music goes into the public domain.
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Or, sniff the communication between a device and the authentication server and write an app to mimic this digital conversation.
Put a few of these online in several different countries and anyone with brains enough to add an entry to their hosts file can use them instead of the real servers.
Then, every file will play on every device.
Alternatively, make the source code (or at least cross-platform binaries) available and let people run it locally.
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I know this has been said again and again, but it's like the music industry doesn't read slashdot ;)
You seem to think they can read?
If Jill (Music Industry) gives an encryption key to Jane (a person using a DRM infested player that needs the key to play music) so that Bob the hacker (Who happens to be the same person as Jane) cannot spy on the music being played by Jane and copy it, Jane can still spy on the music and copy it because she is listening to it.
That's equivalent to the analog hole. Music already faces the analog hole big time because things "need" to play on a huge base of analog equipment, from small headphones to big 10,000 watt stereo systems (the real cause of earthquakes and power shortages in California).
At least the motion picture industry got to add a small bit of resistance to the analog hole with the addition of HDCP to block use of analog connections. But this can be circumvented by many people with som