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RIAA and MPAA Developing Domain-Based DRM
An anonymous reader points out news that the music and movie studios are attempting to develop a new type of DRM that would allow customers more flexibility in playing content on multiple devices. The Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE) would establish a list of devices in your personal "domain" (unrelated to web domains), and minimizes or removes restrictions within that domain. TechCrunch summarizes DECE and notes that many of the big corporations have decided to support it.
"The ecosystem envisioned by Singer et al revolves around a common set of formats, interfaces and other standards. Devices built to the DECE specifications would be able to play any DECE-branded content and work with any DECE-certified service. The goal is to create for downloads the same kind of interoperability that's been true for physical products, such as CDs and DVDs. Where it gets really interesting, though, is the group's stated intention to make digital files as flexible and permissive as CDs, at least within the confines of someone's personal domain. Once you've acquired a file, you could play it on any of your devices -- if it couldn't be passed directly from one DECE-ready device to another, you'd be allowed to download additional copies. And when you're away from home, you could stream the file to any device with a DECE-compatible Web browser."
Yeah, this sounds like it will have all sorts of problems with things like transferral of goods... things like first sale doctrine will be very hard to use with this system.
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In addition, the iPod will never support it. There goes 70% of the potential users.
apple allows up to five, and that limit is set by the RIAA, and MPAA.
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What do you bet that was the original full project name? ;)
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Technically, users who bought MS Fairplay 1.0 can still play their music because their machine is still authenticated. The problem will be if anything ever happens to the machine like a re-install of the OS or the music owner decides to buy a new machine. There are no more servers to authenticate the new/re-installed machine. As someone who had to re-install XP many times because of stability/malware issues, re-installing Windows happens a lot.
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According to the Wikipedia article on Copy Control, it is only effective on Windows - Linux and OSX can easily rip files from it. Boot up a Linux system, rip the files onto it, and then move them to your Windows box.
Everything is subjective.
Sound is analog. ""Digital" music is simply a digital encoding of an analog signal, if you convert it back to analog, copy the analog signal, and then re-encode it into digital you will have a digital signal, but this time without whatever bullshit encryption was on it to begin with. Yes, you will get some degradation in the process, but I can guarantee you that this can be made VERY minor, and certainly much less significant than the compression algorithms used to reduce the file size. Any statistical noise can be dealt with by repeating the process and average the result, systematic errors will be no worse than those inherent in the equipment you end up using to listen to it.
I don't think you caught what he was referring to. Cable TV was originally and partially still is the sale of over-the-air stations that can be had for free, delivered via wire. TV Season DVDs are selling you something you could have already recorded for free. All three of those are simply sale of free+convenient.