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A Look at Google DRM
pcause writes "The Register is reporting on Google's recent announcement of their own DRM. From the article: 'Google's DRM will make its first appearance as part of a new video downloading service. Page revealed that customers will be able to buy TV shows from CBS, NBA basketball games and a host of other content with Google serving as the delivery broker for the video. This move mimics other technology companies - most notably Apple - which have struck deals with large media houses to send video over the web for a fee.' "
Google Roooooooooooootkit?
Does this make my brain look big?
If Google can do it then it isn't evil right? But seriously, Google is the egg head capital of the valley. If anyone is capable of making a DRM system that isn't crackable it'll be these guys. So how long till we see it cracked? I say no more than a week. Anyone wan running a pool?
How we know is more important than what we know.
Boycot them! Hit them where it hurts! Vote with your dollars!
You have the power!
I wonder what search engine I can use to search for a hack............
Yep, I'll just wait for the hack, and when it's done I'll just search for it on good ole Google...
WWJD?
JWRTFM!
Does this make them evil yet?
Oh my God, Google really has become Microsoft. What's next? Google Mice?
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Like with Apple, people will probably take both sides. I'll take the anti-drm side because then I can use the following quote from TFA:
Many of you - who have become obsessed with the god you call Googlor - will no doubt suck down Google's DRM with pride.
That's just nasty.
My parents have mentioned some form of media that apparently you went to a store and bought. You'd insert it in some kind of device (portable player, your car stereo, home rack system, PC, your FRIEND's stereo, your OFFICE PC, etc.) and it would just play.
I pretty much called bullshit though. I mean, come on. Things get BETTER over time for the consumer, right? And they tried to tell me at one point:
1) You actually got physical media
2) The media even came with little booklets with song lyrics (and it wasn't illegal)
3) Price was about the same price or cheaper than what you get from iTMS, Nap$ster, etc.
4) You could play the stuff practically ANYWHERE
5) Sound quality was great- even better than the downloaded stuff
6) You could sell the media (LEGALLY!) to a friend, store, or whatever when you were done with it.
7) Nobody ever got sued for any of this
Either my parents are full of shit or they grew up in a much better time. Next thing you know they'll tell me about the days when the theater charged less than than $8.50 a person and they weren't loaded with commercials.
This is evil, broken, and the worst thing to happen since the great cabbage fart crisis of 1996!
From video.google.com Help Center:
How can I tell if a video is copy-protected?
You can determine whether a video is copy-protected during the purchase process: if a video is only available for Windows, it's copy-protected.
So I'm honestly baffled. First there was DIVX (1), sold through electronics retail stores, which was a technology that ensured that the movies you rented/bought couldn't be played unless your player's phone call completed. This died a well-deserved premature death. Then there was DivX:-) (2), an MPEG4-like video encoder distributed by hackers. Then I think there wasw DivX (3), as the hackers went mainstream? Now there's DivX (4), which seems a lot like (1) but maybe without the phone call.
Am I understanding this all correctly? Is there any relation between (2) and (4)? Between (1) and (4)? Most importantly...
WILL EVERYONE QUIT CALLING THEIR NEW VIDEO TECHNOLOGY DIVX? THE NAME IS TAKEN ALREADY, OK???
google = do some evil
apple = think evil
microsoft = be evil
sony = root for evil
sco = sue for evil
dell = build evil
intel = evil inside -> evil ahead
anyone else?
Simple look at the number of LOC that guy wrote - hey he was working at 3am on a caffine high - He must be a better person to employ!
Oh wait, how many bugs did that code have? Why was the code written so late in the first place? Oh you mean we'll have to re-architect that system in a year when the new guy's moved onto a new company and no-one understands it.
But look at the LOC stats!
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