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DRM Technology To Be Added To MP3 Format

Posted by timothy on from the what-a-dumb-name dept.

Bob Zer Fish writes "Cnet News.com has a leading story saying that the venerable MP3 music format is getting a makeover aimed at blocking unauthorized copying. Thomson and Fraunhofer, the companies that license and own the patents behind the MP3 digital music technology, are in the midst of creating a new digital rights management add-on. Of course, there are current standards, but most are incompatible." An anonymous reader points to this brief mention as well.

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  1. Re:So What? by oohgodyeah · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I say it's time to start saving the setup files to the existing MP3 players w/o the DRM crap attached.

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  2. Re:So What? by Fiona+Winger · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Its also been rumored that Longhorn will try to incorporate some versions of Windows Media player that will only play DRM MP3's.

  3. Re:Read carefully, boys and girls by bigberk · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Again, the simple solution to broken music is to NOT BUY IT. The people in RIAA are real smart. As soon as no one buys their crapware, they'll quit trying to shove it up our a$$.

    Exactly! Don't buy RIAA music. Download your shit online, use filesharing applications with bandwidth-limiting enabled so you are harder to detect. Change the default port numbers. Use obscure file sharing apps. Set up a node on freenet. Complain to your ISP and threaten to leave if they poo-poo P2P use. Teach others how to use file sharing properly. Avoid using file sharing at school, university, or work. Support BitTorrent by leaving your client running well after you're done downloading. Don't leave your filesharing apps unattended 24 hours a day. Keep your host free of viruses. Keep your music collections clean of tainted files or corrupt downloads.

    We're slowly killing the big record labels... keep up the good work. I'm not being sarcastic, I really want to see these evil bastards go poor.

  4. Re:"Their own music" by Samrobb · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Or do you know of a foolproof way to write music while preventing oneself from accidentally copying a copyrighted work?

    Unacompanied Sonata

    (To avoid the inevetable off-topic moderation: this is a story about a young musical prodigy who is raised completely separated from any outside influences, so he can create "pure" music.)

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    "Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgement." Job 32:9
  5. Combinatorics says you'll end up in court by tepples · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Is this supposed to mean that no one can create anything new anymore, because it has "all been done before" ?

    I once read a Slashdot journal entry that concluded that the chance of copying something copyrighted was so great that the risk of having to spend the funds to defend oneself in court wasn't worth it. The legal standard for copying is "access" (has the defendant heard the plaintiff's work even once?) plus "substantial similarity" (are they similar?); once Their Experts have presented strong evidence that the songs are in fact similar, you'll probably bankrupt yourself before you can get Your Experts to prove that you'd never heard the song.

    Oh here it is.