Will Apple Follow Microsoft's Lead to Restrictive DRM?

Steve Ryan asks: "The direction Microsoft are taking with Windows (for example, the DRM issues in Vista) have led me to believe Windows will soon be an OS which controls the user, rather than the other way round. I like XP, and I find it stable, but I do not want to upgrade to an OS (Vista) which is restrictive. This leaves me with either Linux or Mac OS X. I like Linux, but it may not work with my laptop, so I don't really want to risk it. OS X seems nice. I spend most of my time writing documents and surfing the web, so it should handle everything I want, and I would be happy to buy a lovely MacBook Pro. This leaves me with my question: Will Apple follow Microsoft's lead and implement a DRM loving policy?"

Comments

Re:Interesting fact

[ILuvRamen]

lmao! oh I forgot, some people get easily confused by long sentences no matter how grammatically correct they are. Oops, was that one too long for you? OH NO! And as for the asshat above this post, IT'S ALL INTERNAL. It's the same type of circuit from the sound processing unit to the speakers as it is from the output to the input. It's a full quality internal circuit! I'm not talking about putting a crossover cable outside the computer, I SAID INTERNAL. My dad's a DJ and I've re-recorded some songs this way to cut off blank endings or whatever and they sound perfect even in a side by side quality comparison test at super loud volumes and trust me, I'M PICKY! I've worked with music through that and other things for longer than you've been bitching at people online needlessly. Why the hell do people like you losers even post pretending they know what they are talking about? You're not fooling anyone!

Re:Interesting fact

[Thalagyrt]

Rereading your crap about all internal and not using an audio loop, you still fail to grasp the concept of recompression. Do me a favor. Go open up a jpeg image, and save it. Then open it up again after closing it, and save it again. Do this about 20 times. You'll see some very clear artifacting. This SAME EXACT process applies to re-encoding mp3s/whatever. Unless you're ripping the ORIGINAL STREAM by simply decrypting the encrypted stream, you are re-encoding and lose quality. Unless of course you want to convert your lossy DRMed files into raw PCM audio, in which case you'll have whatever sound your computer reproduced from the mp3 algorithm. See, the whole idea behind mp3 and any lossy format is to remove less important data in such a way that it can be reproduced fairly accurately without having that original data. This is why it is called LOSSY. And for the record, I'm pickier than you. I have a full studio and the speakers I use are worth about $1800, and I have a fairly high quality audio interface as well. You may not hear the difference on whatever speakers you use, however, I would hear the difference on my setup. Hell, I can hear when a note is off by about 5 cents. Perfect pitch, ever heard of it? Now, shut up, because honestly you have no idea what you're talking about at all.

Re:If you want a Mac so badly, just buy one alread

[FishWithAHammer]

Who the hell would buy a MacBook? The bloody things don't even have keyboards. (THAT travesty is not a keyboard.)