DRM 'Too Complicated' Says Gates

Posted by Zonk on Friday December 15, 2006 @01:38AM from the comments-good-for-three-days-or-three-plays dept.

arbirk writes "BBC News is reporting on comments made by Bill Gates concerning DRM.. It seems he has got the point (DRM is bad for consumers), but that opinion differs widely from the approach taken by Microsoft on Zune and their other music related products. The comments were originally posted on Micro Persuasion. The article also has a take on Apple's DRM." From the BBC article: "Microsoft is one of the biggest exponents of DRM, which is used to protect music and video files on lots of different online services, including Napster and the Zune store. Blogger Michael Arrington, of Techcrunch.com, said Bill Gates' short-term advice for people wanting to transfer songs from one system to another was to 'buy a CD and rip it'. Most CDs do not have any copy protection and can be copied to a PC and to an MP3 player easily and, in the United States at least, legally."

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DRM solution by Anonymous Coward · 2006-12-15 01:54 · Score: -1, Troll

Soudns liek Gaes has the best solution so far. PAY FOR THE FUCKIGN MUSIC YOU LISTEN TO.

Notice he said buy the CD, then rip it. notice that one little thing, the part where he said BUY!!!!
Anger Management by wolff000 · 2006-12-15 02:52 · Score: -1, Troll

Ther is only one thing I really really want to ask Bill Gates. Do Microsoft execs have to go through anger management classes? I would really like his honest opinion on that one.

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