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Real DRM

Posted by michael on from the one-drm-to-bind-you dept.

Cinematique writes "C|Net is reporting that RealNetworks has released a format-independent Digital Rights Management software called Helix DRM. Real states that MP3, AAC, and even OGG can now be released with a DRM wrapper. And this is groundbreaking how? More importantly, do they expect content producers and consumers alike to really adopt this?"

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  1. DRM - Digital rights monopoly by !Squalus · · Score: 5, Informative

    DRM is only meant to maintain the rights of the RIAA and MPAA and nothing else. The digital formats for music have been under attack simply because the mguls had not figured out any way to successfully squeeze every dollar out of the digital scene. DRM is a non-starter, but unless we stop governance by the body corporate, we may have no other choice to obtain music other than enlightened artists who want to reach a different auidence.

    Make a difference - support EFF, or write your Congress jerk. Ask them to stand up for the rights of citizens over the rights of the corporations for a change.

    DRM and corporate greed. It's all about selling out to tell you what entertainment should be. This announcement brought to you by the good folks at the RIAA who remind you that you don't own music when you buy a CD - didn't you read your EULA.

    Where can you listen tomorrow?

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  2. Re:Real's business model. by MeanMF · · Score: 4, Informative

    You forgot:
    3a. Sue people who complain that your software stealthily collects data from your computer
    3b. Sue people who create software that lets you convert RealMedia files to standard formats like mp3
    3c. Whine to the Justice Department about Microsoft

  3. Re:Obnoxious by afidel · · Score: 5, Informative

    I've had no such problems with RealOne and I've had it installed for probably 6+ months, of course the first thing I did was go in and turn off all annoying features like that and disabled startcenter, or whatever they called it in this release. RealPlayer has always been somewhat annoying by default, but if you take the time to go into the config menus you can turn almost all of it off (otherwise I would have uninstalled it).

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  4. Licensing summary by volsung · · Score: 4, Informative
    • The Ogg and Vorbis specifications (different than the code) are totally open for reimplementation in whatever license you want to whatever degree of compatability you want. (i.e. you can create the new Vorbis-over-Pigeon format if that suits your fancy. There is no requirement that you implement the spec completely or exactly as I've seen on some other formats. In fact, since there are no patents involved and the spec is public, I'm pretty sure there is no legal way to enforce limitations on how you use the spec, thankfully.)

    • The reference encoder and decoder libraries for both Ogg and Vorbis are licensed under a BSD license.

    • The reference tools are released under a GPL license. (Those who don't like these terms can easily write their own using the BSD-licensed reference libraries.)

    • There are no limitations placed on the output of any of these programs. Do what you want with your data. :)