Therefore, the recent inclusion of DRM to iTunes stores played no role in my decision to use iPod + iTunes + Mac OS.
While you are happy now, they have built the DRM fence closing you in. So far you haven't tried your freedom to find the walls to confining yet. The walls are there, and you are fine with it. You get everyting from your own CD's and i-Tunes. This may be OK for you for the rest of your life. When you decide on a subscription service to have access to a wide library, you will find a wall in the way. When you find the Beatles on the SONY site at a later date, you will find the wall.
I'm on the outside of these walls so I see them very clearly. The bait of music is there in both subscription models and per download model. All I have to do is choose a single vendor's DRM and take the bait.
I have decided to stay on the other side of the fence. I am a consumer. I embrace cross platform standards. When Vidoe players came out I bought a Laserdisk. One of the deciding factors was Broadcast quality standard NTSC, No DRM, no flashing colors, rolling pictures, etc. Compatible high quality video was a major selling point. This is when pre-recorded VHS was about $65 a copy. Because Laserdisks can be pressed, the promise was to be cheaper than videotape. It's the same empty promise of Compact Disc verses VHS and Compact Cassette. The studios held back the format and insisted on higher royalties for the high quality format, even though it was cheaper to duplicate. Prices on VHS came down. Prices on optical formats remained high.
Still rubbing my sore spot over the broken promises and the blatent rip-off of the cheaper to produce product, It will be a long time until I even consider any new high definition format due to the expected premium price hike.
I expect HD DVD to be very popular like the SACD format. It's crippled badly, plays much worse by design on it's red book layer, high priced, and has poor market penetration helping keeping is a snob appeal item that joe six pack will gladly leave on the shelf. It's pretty bad when they degrade the red book layer of a SACD just so the high def part looks better in a comparison. Lesson learned.. Stick with Audio CD's. They sound better and cost less and have a much larger selection.
The big problem with Laserdisks was high cost and very limited selection. They were to be a big item in video rental. DVD's have met the price points the laser disk was suppost to have reached.
By the way, I can sell my used CD's, LP's, Laserdisks, Cassette tapes, and such or give them away or give them to my kids. Have you tried it with anything from iTunes... Welcome to the wall. It's just another brick in the wall.
Anyone telling me I can burn and re-rip stuff from iTunes is simply pointing out the wall has a small brick sized hole tunes, with some effort and some damage, can fit through the wall. Later a little brick can seal up that little hole. The presense of a small hole does not negate the fact the wall is in the way.
Tear down the wall! Tear down the Wall! (Pink Floyd)
Notably the PACE 551 HD. I had a loaner until the PVR came in, and I'd lose the HDMI connection daily with an error message stating my TV wasn't HDCP compliant (it is). I used to have my doubts about DRM. Not any more. Now I am convinced it is evil, treats consumers like criminals and is defective by design.
Go to any store displaying a shelf of HDTV's. Look at the connections they are using. I haven't found a single store using the HDMI connection. They all use the component RGB coax. I was wondering why HDTV can be picked up on a single coax, but requires 5 to get from the tuner to the display. (RGB, Right, Left)
Due to DRM, only RGB works with a signal splitter for a store displey of HDTVs.
I can't wait for the day all the store displays have a blank screen because the content provider shut off analog output. It's probably all the in-store displays play the demo channel and nothing else. Nothing else can display on their setup in high definition due to DRM and the multi-display setup. Next time I'm in the store, I'm tempted to have them channel surf for me just to show the tuner response time while changing channel on a HDTV tuner. It may be fun to see all the channels that don't work or have very low resolution. I bet the store staff is forbidden to show channel changes to keep the dirty secret and sell more sets.
Your statement strongly implies that Iraq and 9/11 are related. They are not.
Care to provide any evidence? The is a forum to discuss the facts. Without any evidence, I take your comment as an opinion.
I have my own opinion. I have valid reasons for it and I have been kind enough to share why I have that opinion. Included in the links is this tidbit including pictures.
Photos Prove Connection Between Iraq and Al-Qaeda Terrorists March 14, 2003
About 20 minutes before show time, we posted satellite imagery of Salman Pak - home of the terrorist training center in Iraq we've been telling you about. I want to thank Gary Napier and his whole staff from Space Imaging, Inc. for these images from their IKONOS satellite. It's not in geo synchronous orbit, so they can move it to map, measure and monitor anywhere on earth.
The third of the three shots zeros in on what looks like a Boeing 727 fuselage to me. Everyone says it's a 707, but its wings would be farther forward if that were the case. So it's probably a 727, or at least a tri-jet. One of the stories I read this week and put into Rush's Saddam Stack of Stuff in researching all this, cited Aviation Week and Space Technology's article on this facility. This confirms the existence of that fuselage; it's right where the Iraqi defectors said it was.
What do you base your opinion on no connection upon? Blinders?
Shall we consider the source of those links? Rush Limbaugh's website?
Not a Rush site;
Published on Thursday, March 24, 2005 by the Agence France-Presse Insurgents Control Raided 'Qaeda-Baath' Training Camp in Iraq
Not a Rush site;
TIME magazine recently posted an interview with native Iraqi Abu Mohammed reflecting on a number of things related to Saddam Hussein's death including the effect that Hussein and his Baath regime had on the country of Iraq and Hussein's followers joining up with Abu Musab al Zarqawi after Hussein had been captured.
How about atacking the content instead of just shooting the messinger. Only one link is from the Rush Limbaugh website. None of the other sites are from there. I did a Google search. There is a lot of discrediting going on just because of who the messenger is in one link and the facts are ignored.
There is lots of evidence of the jet in the training camp in Iraq and there is still denial of any relationship between the terrorists and Iraq. Please find any evidence that location was not a training camp.
If this information is legit, where are the links from, say, CNN, or BBC, or even Fox News?
Did you follow the link to the Time article? Slow down on descrediting the whole affair without checking the content first. I can tell you scanned the list of links without checking any of them and then making a sweeping judgement based on the location of one of the links. Your hate of Rush is obvious.
Again, care to comment on any of the content instead of tha messenger?
I'm surprised they didn't get him for tax evasion [msn.com], too. I mean, the IRS even requires that you pay taxes on stolen property.
2006 tax returns are not due unitl April 15th. He hasn't turned in a fraudulant return for his 2006 taxes yet. Can't prosecute for a fraud that has not happened.
Not entirely true. I have embraced the Apple solution because they offer the best product from the player all the way down to the store.
Correction; entirely true. The single vendor solution meets you needs. It is the best offering of store, player, and software. That is the DRM bait and you have it hook line and sinker. Just for grins grab a few tunes off Yahoo Music and get them to play on your iPod. Better yet, when your iPod gets dropped too many times and you decide you like the Zen better, grab one and load your songs from the iTunes store.
Until a better solution comes along, you have taken the DRM bait. I haven't. iTunes is incompatible with my hardware and OS. MP3's play on all my hardware. Anything not in MP3 format is incompatible. I'm still waiting for a better vendor of MP3 music.
I'm not going to read a 1.8 mb PDF TFA unless I know whether or not its conclusions agree with my predisposed bias!
You don't have to. Start in the table of contents and you will find the conclusion is on a single page. It's on page 283. It's a PDF so I can't cut and paste and If you are not going to read it, I'm not taking the time to retype the conclusion page.
You have to rip the cd to mp3 then load them back up to a cd as mp3s, correct?
Sorry for the second reply, but I didn't cover that point. I have a portable music player just like you do but another brand. I have already ripped by CD collection just like you have except I put them in MP3 format. From here, it's a simple task to stuff a few MP3's on a CD for the road trip or to enjoy in the living room on the main stereo.
If you used your Apple supplied defaults, you didn't rip to MP3. If you bought from the iTunes store, you don't have MP3s. It is much easier to create a MP3 player because everyting is already in the MP3 format. You get to deal with DRM if you want to play your music in anything without an iPod Dock such as DVD players and CD MP3 car stereos.
Yahoo has better content, but doesn't work with Macs or iPods. That actually pisses me off more than iPod+iTunes DRM.
You have embraced single vendor lock-in because it meets your needs of a PC (or MAC) and an Apple branded digital music player. I am locked out of most online markets because I have not picked a single vendor lock-in. My portable digital music player (Inexpensive Coby brand) is great but the DRM vendors including MS's Plays for Sure & Zune, and Apple's Fairplay are all incompatible with it. It plays MP3's and non-DRM WMA files. My CD MP3 players include the car deck, a portable CD player, and the living room DVD player. Like my portable digital music player, all these devices can not play the digital content from any DRM format. The DRM formats are all incompatible. Wouldn't it be nice if Digital Music was standardized and any content would play on any player? Remember how Telarc, Capitol, and Sony CD's would all play on a Panasonic CD player? CD's sold. In the DRM digital music market, the market is carved up into many small walled gardens where only MP3's play everywhere, but few sell them.
Apple would rather have king of the hill single vendor lock-in then me as a consumer. Same applies to all other DRM format vendors.
If everyone voted with their pocketbook against DRM, it would be stillborn just like the DAT recorder. Unfortunately I have been outvoted by those who love DRM. The consumer has taken the bait hook line and sinker.
Heavy marketing and promotion sometimes outweighs the consumer is always right.
Have fun, send a Creative Zen owner a gift card for iTunes and send an iPod owner a Yahoo Music subscription. Can you say "Incompatible by design?"
This is no copy protection - only a mild barrier to make it more likely that the average customer does _not_ buy another brand of mp3 player.
It is also a mild barrier to giving the track to your friend. It won't go on his iPod without deleting everything already on his iPod. Of course you can always go through the mild barrier at additional expense, reduced quality, and lost time. The barrier is there to discourage casual copying as well as vendor lock-in. It's easier for your friend to buy his own copy of the tune then burn a CD and rip to MP3 at lower quality plus the hasle of re-inputting the ID3 tags.
That is the model for buying batteries for a laser pointer. Buy 3 batteries for $1.59 each or buy another laser pointer with 2 sets of batteries (6 cells) for $2.95.
I avoid things that use button cells simply because replacements are hard to get without buying another laser pointer to toss.
Anybody need a dozen laser pointers without batteries?
Records were copied on to audio cassettes and with 2 videorecorders you could easily copy any videotape.
The big deal on the new copying is a copy of a copy of a copy is exactly like the original rip. Have you ever heard a 5 generation copy of a copy of a cassette? How about 7th or 8th generation copy of a VHS movie? The piracy path was self limiting. With Peer to Peer, getting a copy 20 or 30 copies later is just like the first copy. That's the big deal and the drive to put the genie back in the bottle with DRM. They have to kill the first digital copy that is free of DRM.
The Apple iTunes only exists because there is a loss to make a CD and another loss to make a MP3 from the CD. They are betting someone else to get better quality for their iPod will simply buy their own copy.
It's like would you buy your own newspaper, or do you want me to photocopy mine? The photocopy involves a reduction of quality, an investment in time and materials. This is the iTunes model. It's more convienent to get your own better copy. Casual copying is reduced to negligable levels.
DRM is part of their business model and it won't go anywhere until it results in a shareholder-awakening loss of money.
You mean like the leak that sprung up with emusic? Bands that are anit-DRM and tired of being ripped off by the RIAA are starting to go inde. Bare Naked Ladies and others have jumped ship. I wonder how far the bands and consumers will migrate away from the RIAA cartel?
DRM is incompatible with so much stuff, many items are still born. The DAT is a good example. Vista and Blu-Ray may be the next still born. Blue-Ray may be limited to just a few SONY titles and games for the Playstation. It's going to be too much incompatiblily to work on Vista as not enough people are going to spring for all the trusted DRM hardware to make it work. That nice high res monitor and sound system you have are incompatible with the DRM requirements. I have serious doubts the Blu-Ray and HD DVD format war will be won by either. Plain old DVD's will win this one by a landslide. They just work in the computer, in DVD players with your TV set, and portable DVD players.
HD stuff and it's DRM simply won't work in most hardware due to the lack of a full secure digital signal path all the way to the display. The wrong monitor or video card or bad combination will keep the adoption rate very low for a long time. Maybe it will sell as well as the DAT.
It has always been about controling your customer.
The only problem is they over did it. Customers are looking for MP3's to play on a variety of devices such as flash players, DVD players, car stereos, and such.
I've been calling DRM incompatible by design. The over doing the DRM has about cratered. all formats in digital music except MP3 and iTunes.
I have. When they are ignored they try and try again. 9/11 was not the first attack. They failed to bring the building down with the basement bomb the first time. Are you honestly saying forget 9/11 and let them try again and again? You are kidding, right?
Clinton only launched a few missles and did not put us in a 4+ year, $350-billion quagmire.
Good point. It did nothing to prevent 9/11. Nobody said dealing with the threat to our security would be simple and cheap. Would you rather put down the terrorists or sit and wait for the next attack. Sit and wait for them to develop nukes? Pick one. If you don't pick one, one will be chosen for you. I'm wondering how long we are going to sit and wait on Iran and North Korea while they work on nukes.
GW Bush picked one. We may dissagree on if he picked the right one. But not picking one leaves you with the other.
Wait, who declared war? I must have missed that bit.
The latest declaration was delivered in New York on 9/11. Sorry you missed it. The rest of us noticed the declaration loud and clear and was covered by all the news media. This time we answered the call instead of ignoring it like the first time the World Trade Center was bombed but didn't collapse.
"The PERFORM Act would require satellite, cable and Internet broadcasters to pay fair market value for the performance of digital music. Additionally, the bill would require the use of readily available and cost-effective technology to prevent music theft,"
Knowing the issues of figuring out the size of your listening audiance and the huge prices charged for fair market value for the performance of digital music I see a lot of Internet broadcasters to simply become Talk Radio or band advertisement promotional sites. Internet broadcasters simply can't agree to the fair market value for the performance of digital music as defined by the content providers. It would put them out of business which is the intent of the bill. Traditional broadcasters hate the competition. Some over the air talk radio stations have an online presense, but strip out the music for the online version due to the requirements of the music industry.
This is news to me. I noticed it came with wide open windows and lots of them. Where is this screen door you speak of? My desktop is full of windows and not one door.
You mean the ones that never existed? The ones our inspectors could not find the remains of? Were they destroyed or dismanteled and stashed for later re-assembly. Maybe they never really existed.
requested more time to complete their report on whether Iraq had complied with its obligation to disarm
There were reasons to belive they existed and were stashed someplace. The destruction was never verified.
The CIA director himself told Shrub Jr, and everyone else back in 2002 that tHERE WERE NO weapons of mass distractions in Iraq.
If 5 people in other countries and the leader of Iraq claim that Iraq has WMD and some guy in the USA said they don't have WMD, would you base your belief in just one person?
There were serious doubts if they did or did not exist. We took no chances. To believe just one person would be foolish.
If the police raid a drug house and 5 neighbors say they have automatic weapons and the evidence clerk tells you they have no weapons, would you send 2 officers to secure the place with just battons and handcuffs?
We acted on the side of caution and prudence just like the swat team would do on the drug house. Remember, they sanitized places the inspectors were headed and often detained them when they wanted to see something. When that was too much trouble, they had the inspectors leave. A destination 30 minutes away often took 5 hours to get there. Think they were hiding something? Do you think because the inspectors found nothing that nothing was ever there? I still have reasonable doubts.
Those who fail to learn from history are condemmed to repeat it.
Can't blame George Bush for the inteligence given him by the Clinton Administration. Please review history. We knew about the WMD when Clinton was in office. Did you forget that they tossed out the inspectors? Just because we haven't found them by no means is proof they never existed. How long does it take when an attack is looming to move that stuff. I'll leave it up to you to find out how long they had between removal of the inspectors and the start of the war. They had plenty of time. While you are at it. Check out the plumbing supplies they tried to get.
We had plenty of reasons for concern. North Korea and Iran are also starting to take actions that are attracting notice.
Those who don't learn from history are condemmed to repeat it. We didn't declare war, they did. We decided to fight it over there instead of over here. Thanks for noticing.
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Therefore, the recent inclusion of DRM to iTunes stores played no role in my decision to use iPod + iTunes + Mac OS.
While you are happy now, they have built the DRM fence closing you in. So far you haven't tried your freedom to find the walls to confining yet. The walls are there, and you are fine with it. You get everyting from your own CD's and i-Tunes. This may be OK for you for the rest of your life. When you decide on a subscription service to have access to a wide library, you will find a wall in the way. When you find the Beatles on the SONY site at a later date, you will find the wall.
I'm on the outside of these walls so I see them very clearly. The bait of music is there in both subscription models and per download model. All I have to do is choose a single vendor's DRM and take the bait.
I have decided to stay on the other side of the fence. I am a consumer. I embrace cross platform standards. When Vidoe players came out I bought a Laserdisk. One of the deciding factors was Broadcast quality standard NTSC, No DRM, no flashing colors, rolling pictures, etc. Compatible high quality video was a major selling point. This is when pre-recorded VHS was about $65 a copy. Because Laserdisks can be pressed, the promise was to be cheaper than videotape. It's the same empty promise of Compact Disc verses VHS and Compact Cassette. The studios held back the format and insisted on higher royalties for the high quality format, even though it was cheaper to duplicate. Prices on VHS came down. Prices on optical formats remained high.
Still rubbing my sore spot over the broken promises and the blatent rip-off of the cheaper to produce product, It will be a long time until I even consider any new high definition format due to the expected premium price hike.
I expect HD DVD to be very popular like the SACD format. It's crippled badly, plays much worse by design on it's red book layer, high priced, and has poor market penetration helping keeping is a snob appeal item that joe six pack will gladly leave on the shelf. It's pretty bad when they degrade the red book layer of a SACD just so the high def part looks better in a comparison. Lesson learned.. Stick with Audio CD's. They sound better and cost less and have a much larger selection.
The big problem with Laserdisks was high cost and very limited selection. They were to be a big item in video rental. DVD's have met the price points the laser disk was suppost to have reached.
By the way, I can sell my used CD's, LP's, Laserdisks, Cassette tapes, and such or give them away or give them to my kids. Have you tried it with anything from iTunes... Welcome to the wall. It's just another brick in the wall.
Anyone telling me I can burn and re-rip stuff from iTunes is simply pointing out the wall has a small brick sized hole tunes, with some effort and some damage, can fit through the wall. Later a little brick can seal up that little hole. The presense of a small hole does not negate the fact the wall is in the way.
Tear down the wall! Tear down the Wall! (Pink Floyd)
Notably the PACE 551 HD. I had a loaner until the PVR came in, and I'd lose the HDMI connection daily with an error message stating my TV wasn't HDCP compliant (it is). I used to have my doubts about DRM. Not any more. Now I am convinced it is evil, treats consumers like criminals and is defective by design.
Go to any store displaying a shelf of HDTV's. Look at the connections they are using. I haven't found a single store using the HDMI connection. They all use the component RGB coax. I was wondering why HDTV can be picked up on a single coax, but requires 5 to get from the tuner to the display. (RGB, Right, Left)
Due to DRM, only RGB works with a signal splitter for a store displey of HDTVs.
I can't wait for the day all the store displays have a blank screen because the content provider shut off analog output. It's probably all the in-store displays play the demo channel and nothing else. Nothing else can display on their setup in high definition due to DRM and the multi-display setup. Next time I'm in the store, I'm tempted to have them channel surf for me just to show the tuner response time while changing channel on a HDTV tuner. It may be fun to see all the channels that don't work or have very low resolution. I bet the store staff is forbidden to show channel changes to keep the dirty secret and sell more sets.
Your statement strongly implies that Iraq and 9/11 are related. They are not.
Care to provide any evidence? The is a forum to discuss the facts. Without any evidence, I take your comment as an opinion.
I have my own opinion. I have valid reasons for it and I have been kind enough to share why I have that opinion. Included in the links is this tidbit including pictures.
Photos Prove Connection Between Iraq and Al-Qaeda Terrorists
March 14, 2003
About 20 minutes before show time, we posted satellite imagery of Salman Pak - home of the terrorist training center in Iraq we've been telling you about. I want to thank Gary Napier and his whole staff from Space Imaging, Inc. for these images from their IKONOS satellite. It's not in geo synchronous orbit, so they can move it to map, measure and monitor anywhere on earth.
The third of the three shots zeros in on what looks like a Boeing 727 fuselage to me. Everyone says it's a 707, but its wings would be farther forward if that were the case. So it's probably a 727, or at least a tri-jet. One of the stories I read this week and put into Rush's Saddam Stack of Stuff in researching all this, cited Aviation Week and Space Technology's article on this facility. This confirms the existence of that fuselage; it's right where the Iraqi defectors said it was.
What do you base your opinion on no connection upon? Blinders?
Shall we consider the source of those links? Rush Limbaugh's website?
3 256,00.html
Not a Rush site;
Published on Thursday, March 24, 2005 by the Agence France-Presse
Insurgents Control Raided 'Qaeda-Baath' Training Camp in Iraq
Not a Rush site;
TIME magazine recently posted an interview with native Iraqi Abu Mohammed reflecting on a number of things related to Saddam Hussein's death including the effect that Hussein and his Baath regime had on the country of Iraq and Hussein's followers joining up with Abu Musab al Zarqawi after Hussein had been captured.
Not a Rush Site;
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,157
How about atacking the content instead of just shooting the messinger. Only one link is from the Rush Limbaugh website. None of the other sites are from there. I did a Google search. There is a lot of discrediting going on just because of who the messenger is in one link and the facts are ignored.
There is lots of evidence of the jet in the training camp in Iraq and there is still denial of any relationship between the terrorists and Iraq. Please find any evidence that location was not a training camp.
If this information is legit, where are the links from, say, CNN, or BBC, or even Fox News?
Did you follow the link to the Time article? Slow down on descrediting the whole affair without checking the content first. I can tell you scanned the list of links without checking any of them and then making a sweeping judgement based on the location of one of the links. Your hate of Rush is obvious.
Again, care to comment on any of the content instead of tha messenger?
I'm surprised they didn't get him for tax evasion [msn.com], too. I mean, the IRS even requires that you pay taxes on stolen property.
2006 tax returns are not due unitl April 15th. He hasn't turned in a fraudulant return for his 2006 taxes yet. Can't prosecute for a fraud that has not happened.
Not entirely true. I have embraced the Apple solution because they offer the best product from the player all the way down to the store.
Correction; entirely true. The single vendor solution meets you needs. It is the best offering of store, player, and software. That is the DRM bait and you have it hook line and sinker. Just for grins grab a few tunes off Yahoo Music and get them to play on your iPod. Better yet, when your iPod gets dropped too many times and you decide you like the Zen better, grab one and load your songs from the iTunes store.
Until a better solution comes along, you have taken the DRM bait. I haven't. iTunes is incompatible with my hardware and OS. MP3's play on all my hardware. Anything not in MP3 format is incompatible. I'm still waiting for a better vendor of MP3 music.
I'm not going to read a 1.8 mb PDF TFA unless I know whether or not its conclusions agree with my predisposed bias!
You don't have to. Start in the table of contents and you will find the conclusion is on a single page. It's on page 283. It's a PDF so I can't cut and paste and If you are not going to read it, I'm not taking the time to retype the conclusion page.
For me, I like the conclusion. MS will not.
You have to rip the cd to mp3 then load them back up to a cd as mp3s, correct?
Sorry for the second reply, but I didn't cover that point. I have a portable music player just like you do but another brand. I have already ripped by CD collection just like you have except I put them in MP3 format. From here, it's a simple task to stuff a few MP3's on a CD for the road trip or to enjoy in the living room on the main stereo.
If you used your Apple supplied defaults, you didn't rip to MP3. If you bought from the iTunes store, you don't have MP3s. It is much easier to create a MP3 player because everyting is already in the MP3 format. You get to deal with DRM if you want to play your music in anything without an iPod Dock such as DVD players and CD MP3 car stereos.
Yahoo has better content, but doesn't work with Macs or iPods. That actually pisses me off more than iPod+iTunes DRM.
You have embraced single vendor lock-in because it meets your needs of a PC (or MAC) and an Apple branded digital music player. I am locked out of most online markets because I have not picked a single vendor lock-in. My portable digital music player (Inexpensive Coby brand) is great but the DRM vendors including MS's Plays for Sure & Zune, and Apple's Fairplay are all incompatible with it. It plays MP3's and non-DRM WMA files. My CD MP3 players include the car deck, a portable CD player, and the living room DVD player. Like my portable digital music player, all these devices can not play the digital content from any DRM format. The DRM formats are all incompatible. Wouldn't it be nice if Digital Music was standardized and any content would play on any player? Remember how Telarc, Capitol, and Sony CD's would all play on a Panasonic CD player? CD's sold. In the DRM digital music market, the market is carved up into many small walled gardens where only MP3's play everywhere, but few sell them.
Apple would rather have king of the hill single vendor lock-in then me as a consumer. Same applies to all other DRM format vendors.
If everyone voted with their pocketbook against DRM, it would be stillborn just like the DAT recorder. Unfortunately I have been outvoted by those who love DRM. The consumer has taken the bait hook line and sinker.
Heavy marketing and promotion sometimes outweighs the consumer is always right.
Have fun, send a Creative Zen owner a gift card for iTunes and send an iPod owner a Yahoo Music subscription.
Can you say "Incompatible by design?"
That's because the door is on the back...
Wow! I see it. That's where the tubes go in.
This is no copy protection - only a mild barrier to make it more likely that the average customer does _not_ buy another brand of mp3 player.
It is also a mild barrier to giving the track to your friend. It won't go on his iPod without deleting everything already on his iPod. Of course you can always go through the mild barrier at additional expense, reduced quality, and lost time. The barrier is there to discourage casual copying as well as vendor lock-in. It's easier for your friend to buy his own copy of the tune then burn a CD and rip to MP3 at lower quality plus the hasle of re-inputting the ID3 tags.
So I buy 100 and throw away 99 - inefficiency.
That is the model for buying batteries for a laser pointer. Buy 3 batteries for $1.59 each or buy another laser pointer with 2 sets of batteries (6 cells) for $2.95.
I avoid things that use button cells simply because replacements are hard to get without buying another laser pointer to toss.
Anybody need a dozen laser pointers without batteries?
Records were copied on to audio cassettes and with 2 videorecorders you could easily copy any videotape.
The big deal on the new copying is a copy of a copy of a copy is exactly like the original rip. Have you ever heard a 5 generation copy of a copy of a cassette? How about 7th or 8th generation copy of a VHS movie? The piracy path was self limiting. With Peer to Peer, getting a copy 20 or 30 copies later is just like the first copy. That's the big deal and the drive to put the genie back in the bottle with DRM. They have to kill the first digital copy that is free of DRM.
The Apple iTunes only exists because there is a loss to make a CD and another loss to make a MP3 from the CD. They are betting someone else to get better quality for their iPod will simply buy their own copy.
It's like would you buy your own newspaper, or do you want me to photocopy mine? The photocopy involves a reduction of quality, an investment in time and materials. This is the iTunes model. It's more convienent to get your own better copy. Casual copying is reduced to negligable levels.
DRM is part of their business model and it won't go anywhere until it results in a shareholder-awakening loss of money.
You mean like the leak that sprung up with emusic? Bands that are anit-DRM and tired of being ripped off by the RIAA are starting to go inde. Bare Naked Ladies and others have jumped ship. I wonder how far the bands and consumers will migrate away from the RIAA cartel?
DRM is incompatible with so much stuff, many items are still born. The DAT is a good example. Vista and Blu-Ray may be the next still born. Blue-Ray may be limited to just a few SONY titles and games for the Playstation. It's going to be too much incompatiblily to work on Vista as not enough people are going to spring for all the trusted DRM hardware to make it work. That nice high res monitor and sound system you have are incompatible with the DRM requirements. I have serious doubts the Blu-Ray and HD DVD format war will be won by either. Plain old DVD's will win this one by a landslide. They just work in the computer, in DVD players with your TV set, and portable DVD players.
HD stuff and it's DRM simply won't work in most hardware due to the lack of a full secure digital signal path all the way to the display. The wrong monitor or video card or bad combination will keep the adoption rate very low for a long time. Maybe it will sell as well as the DAT.
It has always been about controling your customer.
The only problem is they over did it. Customers are looking for MP3's to play on a variety of devices such as flash players, DVD players, car stereos, and such.
I've been calling DRM incompatible by design. The over doing the DRM has about cratered. all formats in digital music except MP3 and iTunes.
Please review history.
I have. When they are ignored they try and try again. 9/11 was not the first attack. They failed to bring the building down with the basement bomb the first time. Are you honestly saying forget 9/11 and let them try again and again? You are kidding, right?
Clinton only launched a few missles and did not put us in a 4+ year, $350-billion quagmire.
Good point. It did nothing to prevent 9/11. Nobody said dealing with the threat to our security would be simple and cheap. Would you rather put down the terrorists or sit and wait for the next attack. Sit and wait for them to develop nukes? Pick one. If you don't pick one, one will be chosen for you. I'm wondering how long we are going to sit and wait on Iran and North Korea while they work on nukes.
GW Bush picked one. We may dissagree on if he picked the right one. But not picking one leaves you with the other.
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Wait, who declared war? I must have missed that bit.
The latest declaration was delivered in New York on 9/11. Sorry you missed it. The rest of us noticed the declaration loud and clear and was covered by all the news media. This time we answered the call instead of ignoring it like the first time the World Trade Center was bombed but didn't collapse.
"The PERFORM Act would require satellite, cable and Internet broadcasters to pay fair market value for the performance of digital music. Additionally, the bill would require the use of readily available and cost-effective technology to prevent music theft,"
Knowing the issues of figuring out the size of your listening audiance and the huge prices charged for fair market value for the performance of digital music I see a lot of Internet broadcasters to simply become Talk Radio or band advertisement promotional sites. Internet broadcasters simply can't agree to the fair market value for the performance of digital music as defined by the content providers. It would put them out of business which is the intent of the bill. Traditional broadcasters hate the competition. Some over the air talk radio stations have an online presense, but strip out the music for the online version due to the requirements of the music industry.
But Windows only comes with a screen door,
This is news to me. I noticed it came with wide open windows and lots of them. Where is this screen door you speak of? My desktop is full of windows and not one door.
some joker walks by with his jukebox--maybe not even audiable enough for you to notice, but loud enough for the system to detect it,
More likely, they didn't hire a musician and played a CD in the sound system. Same results.. Dead recording at a critical moment.
Note, Saddam claimed all weapons were destroyed.
You mean the ones that never existed? The ones our inspectors could not find the remains of? Were they destroyed or dismanteled and stashed for later re-assembly. Maybe they never really existed.
requested more time to complete their report on whether Iraq had complied with its obligation to disarm
There were reasons to belive they existed and were stashed someplace. The destruction was never verified.
The CIA director himself told Shrub Jr, and everyone else back in 2002 that tHERE WERE NO weapons of mass distractions in Iraq.
If 5 people in other countries and the leader of Iraq claim that Iraq has WMD and some guy in the USA said they don't have WMD, would you base your belief in just one person?
There were serious doubts if they did or did not exist. We took no chances. To believe just one person would be foolish.
If the police raid a drug house and 5 neighbors say they have automatic weapons and the evidence clerk tells you they have no weapons, would you send 2 officers to secure the place with just battons and handcuffs?
We acted on the side of caution and prudence just like the swat team would do on the drug house. Remember, they sanitized places the inspectors were headed and often detained them when they wanted to see something. When that was too much trouble, they had the inspectors leave. A destination 30 minutes away often took 5 hours to get there. Think they were hiding something? Do you think because the inspectors found nothing that nothing was ever there? I still have reasonable doubts.
Iraq war range from non-existent WMD to freeing
Those who fail to learn from history are condemmed to repeat it.
Can't blame George Bush for the inteligence given him by the Clinton Administration. Please review history. We knew about the WMD when Clinton was in office. Did you forget that they tossed out the inspectors? Just because we haven't found them by no means is proof they never existed. How long does it take when an attack is looming to move that stuff. I'll leave it up to you to find out how long they had between removal of the inspectors and the start of the war. They had plenty of time. While you are at it. Check out the plumbing supplies they tried to get.
We had plenty of reasons for concern. North Korea and Iran are also starting to take actions that are attracting notice.
Those who don't learn from history are condemmed to repeat it. We didn't declare war, they did. We decided to fight it over there instead of over here. Thanks for noticing.