Lets look at OD2 od2. Aside from the well documented "Damn, we ran out of bandwidth again" incidents every time they try to sign up another brand (msn, coke etc.), its survival has been due to selling shares in the company to the labels in order to gain rights. This has enabled the labels to dictate the DRM rules used, so EMI has different rules to BMG, and so some tracks allow burning and portable play, some don't. You have to carefully examine what you're buying. Then there's the cost, which is not much lower than a CD. So much for cheaper distribution.
Lets not forget it's all Windows Media, I've yet to see one of their branded stores allow MP3.
The BBC quotes him as saying (most musicians) "good at making music and not necessarily good at marketing". I'd suggest these days he's marketing and nothing else.
Looking at page 16 of the PDF (they've turned cut and paste off) it's a very minimal distribution compared to what you or I would run.
Generally it's a shell, filesystem, a few g* programs (but note no compiler), encryption libs, mailx, curses, openssl & openssl, perl (although no version), sys*, telnet, textutils, vim, vsftpd, w3m, wget and yast stuff.
"you're only allowed to install a certain version of Windows 2000, with servicepacks up to a certain number, and one hotfix. No other servicepacks or hotfixes are allowed"
And it's the same with SuSE. If you look at the SuSE press release you will see that the certidication is limited to "SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 8 with Service Pack 3". Next service pack arrives it will need recertified.
Also there's no way of knowing (that I can see) what extra software was installed. Sendmail? Apache? Or are we just talking a basic kernel and networking?
How about a phone that is a phone first and a computer second?
If you wanted that why did you purchase a Pocket PC based phone then?
If you'd have done your research, you'd have discovered there are Microsoft "phone first" devices, based on Windows Smartphone. They're only just coming out in the US, us backward Europeans have had a couple of a few years now. I got an E200 a few months back.
They are, by no means, perfect. Battery life still sucks, bluetooth is crippled (no DUN profile support), S/SMTP is broken, MMS doesn't support sound, but the syncronisation with your desktop is pefect, unlike the last two Nokias I've had.
The comment on battery life is interesting. Since colour screens became the rage, cell phones have taken a step back (IMO) in battery life. It's going to take a few years to get one that lasts over a week with use again.
I went to Legoland in Windsor UK last summer (*cough* it was her idea honest). They had a generic set for sale labelled "Classic Lego". Only place I've seen it.
And my favourite, dropping advertising icons onto the desktop. Despite opting out of everything.
I used to work for a media company in the UK. I didn't have much choice over not installing real, but I was careful to opt out of everything, remove the startup options (hidden in the registry), and lo, the player puts the registry entries back in.
2 months later there's an icon on the desktop, advertising Tiscali, a crappy UK ISP. And it then starting appearing all over the place, on machines that had real installed. It never appeared anywhere else.
Then there's the hiding of real processes, by calling them "evntsvc", so you don't know it's a real player ad dropper.
I ended up documenting it on bugtraq and getting lots of replies saying other UK users had the same "problem"
But the populous wants excuses, and the media provides them. They don't want to take responsibilty for their actions and their lack of parenting. "My darling little Tiffany was never a naughty girl until she played Quake and then she took Papa's gun and shot her schoolmates".
This is not just an issue about parenting, and the use of TV and computers as a replacement for paying attention to your offspring, it's about taking responsibility for your actions, parent or not.
Except the music files are that. Files. So back them up how you like. To USB key, burn to CD as data files, shove them on an FTP site somewhere, whatever.
No he doesn't, which is why I mentioned Sony. Jackson merged the company which held the rights to the Beatles tracks into Sony in 1995. Later on Jackson used his half of the merged company as collateral for a loan which Sony made him. If he defaults the rights belong to Sony.
Finally Sony/Jackson doesn't own all the rights, Paul McCartney bought the rights to "Love Me Do," "Please, Please Me," "P.S. I Love You," and "Tell Me Why."
i don't know if you can do this with any other service. this alone makes iTMS a great choice. i know with any windows media format you're gonna have lots of restrictions.
First you say you don't know if you can do it with any other service, then you say that any Windows Media format will have lots of restrictions. Which is it?. Of course, if you had read bbspot's review you'd see that all the Windows stores allow burning to CD as an audio CD, and then you can re-rip. Which by your logic makes all the Windows stores a great choice too and liberal rights.
Copyright. Lets take the Beatles as an example. Apple Corps (the record label) own the Beatles tunes, the recordings of these tunes are licensed to EMI Europe for sale through out ECMA, and to Capitol Records (basically EMI again, but a legal entity in it's own right). Sony own the lyrics.
So, a record label usually owns the rights to a particular recording of a tune, the tune itself belongs to someone else and the lyrics and belong to a third party.
Now US record companies (even though they tend to have European branches, or they are owned by European labels) only have the rights to sell recordings within the US (and maybe Canada).
So when iTunes, MusicMatch, Walmart et al deal with the labels they are only licensing the rights to resell the tracks in the US. If they sell outside the US, they're breaking their license agreement. Want to know why you can't search on lyrics in stores? Because they'd need to license the lyrics from yet another company.
Why is this such a pain? Mainly because the US labels won't share with Europe, and vice versa. Each region has to show its own profit, and sharing is bad for that. The licensing and royalty rules are horribly complicated, I've spent a lot of time doing various reporting tools for music promotional sites to cope with this.
you have no ability to make back up copies is stupid
Media Player 9 prompts you the first time you get a DRM license and asks if you want to back it up. You can then choose to have it prompt you every time, or you can choose Tools > License Management > Backup Now.
So, sorry, there is an easy to use backup and restore function, and it actually works.
Consider also that, like Kazza before it, people are now running "hacked" bittorrent clients which throttle upload speeds to a stupidly low level. Even if an RSS driven bittorrent was well behaved, it wouldn't be long before an unfriendly one arrived
Freeme just doesn't work - it's getting a totally bogus content key, roughly 85 bytes long, as opposed to the usual 7. This is the first time that I've *used* freeme, being that I try to avoid non-open stuff, but it seems to be borked.
You're about 2 years too late. Microsoft's reaction to freeme took about 2 weeks, and one simple update to a Windows DRM server. When you play a DRM track for the first time and get that "individualisation update", it's also an update to the bug that allowed freeme to work
Actually the DRM cost for a Microsoft house is minimal. The SDK is available free (assuming you already have a code signing key), you don't have to host the files for download on any Microsoft kit, any HTTP server will do, the only requirements will be an IIS server to serve out licenses, and a windows box somewhere to package the content. Of course it's an SDK, so you do need to code a little, but it's not that difficult.
Now compare this to Real's offering. Last time I looked the costs it was around $500,000 to get their SDK. Once you had it you had to write plugins for the player, as well as write a packager. And of course you need to make your plugin cross platform.
Finally we have Apple's DRM. The cost of that is, well, you give up control. Apple won't share the iTunes DRM, you cannot produce 3rd party licenses, protect your own content, set your own license rules or sell it outside the iTunes store (and hence the US). (As much as I get marked as a troll or flame every time I point out that to content owners Apple is way more restrictive that Microsoft, it still remains true).
As an added bonus there's the penetration of Windows on the desktop, and the fact that Media Player is already there.
All that is why content providers and stores are choosing WM DRM.
Well there's limited by IP address (unreliable) or checking the address of the payment card.
A better question is why is music on-line limited to one area? The answer to that lies in the painful way rights are issued to record labels. For example, Capitol in the US own the rights to Beatles recordings, EMI own them in Europe. Setting aside that Capitol really is EMI, Capitol cannot grant the rights to sell "Let it Be" to a company based in Europe, only EMI Europe can.
It gets even more complicated when you start looking at the copyright on lyrics, which may belong to someone else altogether.
I know you were kidding, but there have been scams in the UK that did exactly that.
The BBC reported on it a while back.
"They began by using "Lebanese loops" - home-made devices which make the customer think the machine has swallowed the card, only for the crooks to nab them after the victim has walked off.
But they have moved on to card skimmers - fake devices which are taped onto the doors of cash machine foyers - and card slot readers."
It used to be you had to press a button to get into the lobby out of hours. Then the homless started sleeping in the lobbys, so the banks replaced the button with a card reader. Now they're having to go back to buttons again.
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Lets look at OD2 od2. Aside from the well documented "Damn, we ran out of bandwidth again" incidents every time they try to sign up another brand (msn, coke etc.), its survival has been due to selling shares in the company to the labels in order to gain rights. This has enabled the labels to dictate the DRM rules used, so EMI has different rules to BMG, and so some tracks allow burning and portable play, some don't. You have to carefully examine what you're buying. Then there's the cost, which is not much lower than a CD. So much for cheaper distribution.
Lets not forget it's all Windows Media, I've yet to see one of their branded stores allow MP3.
The BBC quotes him as saying (most musicians) "good at making music and not necessarily good at marketing". I'd suggest these days he's marketing and nothing else.
The queen doesn't hand them out any more, they're political gifts.
I'm sure Sun and the W3C would be interested in that claim
This version:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-soap12-20010709/
Latest version:
http://www.w3.org/TR/soap12/
Editors:
Martin Gudgin (DevelopMentor)
Marc Hadley (Sun Microsystems)
Jean-Jacques Moreau (Canon)
Henrik Frystyk Nielsen (Microsoft Corp.)
Generally it's a shell, filesystem, a few g* programs (but note no compiler), encryption libs, mailx, curses, openssl & openssl, perl (although no version), sys*, telnet, textutils, vim, vsftpd, w3m, wget and yast stuff.
No apache, no sendmail, nothing fun :)
"you're only allowed to install a certain version of Windows 2000, with servicepacks up to a certain number, and one hotfix. No other servicepacks or hotfixes are allowed"
And it's the same with SuSE. If you look at the SuSE press release you will see that the certidication is limited to "SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 8 with Service Pack 3". Next service pack arrives it will need recertified.
Also there's no way of knowing (that I can see) what extra software was installed. Sendmail? Apache? Or are we just talking a basic kernel and networking?
How about a phone that is a phone first and a computer second?
If you wanted that why did you purchase a Pocket PC based phone then?
If you'd have done your research, you'd have discovered there are Microsoft "phone first" devices, based on Windows Smartphone. They're only just coming out in the US, us backward Europeans have had a couple of a few years now. I got an E200 a few months back.
They are, by no means, perfect. Battery life still sucks, bluetooth is crippled (no DUN profile support), S/SMTP is broken, MMS doesn't support sound, but the syncronisation with your desktop is pefect, unlike the last two Nokias I've had.
The comment on battery life is interesting. Since colour screens became the rage, cell phones have taken a step back (IMO) in battery life. It's going to take a few years to get one that lasts over a week with use again.
No no, the second head is a dupe head, which appeared 3 days after the first head was posted.
I went to Legoland in Windsor UK last summer (*cough* it was her idea honest). They had a generic set for sale labelled "Classic Lego". Only place I've seen it.
I used to work for a media company in the UK. I didn't have much choice over not installing real, but I was careful to opt out of everything, remove the startup options (hidden in the registry), and lo, the player puts the registry entries back in.
2 months later there's an icon on the desktop, advertising Tiscali, a crappy UK ISP. And it then starting appearing all over the place, on machines that had real installed. It never appeared anywhere else.
Then there's the hiding of real processes, by calling them "evntsvc", so you don't know it's a real player ad dropper.
I ended up documenting it on bugtraq and getting lots of replies saying other UK users had the same "problem"
Fancy name for a web bug perhaps? Maybe not, otherwise we'd say Microsoft crowing how lack of security in Outlook Express is useful...
But the populous wants excuses, and the media provides them. They don't want to take responsibilty for their actions and their lack of parenting. "My darling little Tiffany was never a naughty girl until she played Quake and then she took Papa's gun and shot her schoolmates".
This is not just an issue about parenting, and the use of TV and computers as a replacement for paying attention to your offspring, it's about taking responsibility for your actions, parent or not.
Until your club gets RAIDed....
Except the music files are that. Files. So back them up how you like. To USB key, burn to CD as data files, shove them on an FTP site somewhere, whatever.
Finally Sony/Jackson doesn't own all the rights, Paul McCartney bought the rights to "Love Me Do," "Please, Please Me," "P.S. I Love You," and "Tell Me Why."
First you say you don't know if you can do it with any other service, then you say that any Windows Media format will have lots of restrictions. Which is it?. Of course, if you had read bbspot's review you'd see that all the Windows stores allow burning to CD as an audio CD, and then you can re-rip. Which by your logic makes all the Windows stores a great choice too and liberal rights.
Copyright. Lets take the Beatles as an example. Apple Corps (the record label) own the Beatles tunes, the recordings of these tunes are licensed to EMI Europe for sale through out ECMA, and to Capitol Records (basically EMI again, but a legal entity in it's own right). Sony own the lyrics.
So, a record label usually owns the rights to a particular recording of a tune, the tune itself belongs to someone else and the lyrics and belong to a third party.
Now US record companies (even though they tend to have European branches, or they are owned by European labels) only have the rights to sell recordings within the US (and maybe Canada).
So when iTunes, MusicMatch, Walmart et al deal with the labels they are only licensing the rights to resell the tracks in the US. If they sell outside the US, they're breaking their license agreement. Want to know why you can't search on lyrics in stores? Because they'd need to license the lyrics from yet another company.
Why is this such a pain? Mainly because the US labels won't share with Europe, and vice versa. Each region has to show its own profit, and sharing is bad for that. The licensing and royalty rules are horribly complicated, I've spent a lot of time doing various reporting tools for music promotional sites to cope with this.
Media Player 9 prompts you the first time you get a DRM license and asks if you want to back it up. You can then choose to have it prompt you every time, or you can choose Tools > License Management > Backup Now.
So, sorry, there is an easy to use backup and restore function, and it actually works.
Consider also that, like Kazza before it, people are now running "hacked" bittorrent clients which throttle upload speeds to a stupidly low level. Even if an RSS driven bittorrent was well behaved, it wouldn't be long before an unfriendly one arrived
Freeme just doesn't work - it's getting a totally bogus content key, roughly 85 bytes long, as opposed to the usual 7. This is the first time that I've *used* freeme, being that I try to avoid non-open stuff, but it seems to be borked.
You're about 2 years too late. Microsoft's reaction to freeme took about 2 weeks, and one simple update to a Windows DRM server. When you play a DRM track for the first time and get that "individualisation update", it's also an update to the bug that allowed freeme to work
"costs money to implement"
Actually the DRM cost for a Microsoft house is minimal. The SDK is available free (assuming you already have a code signing key), you don't have to host the files for download on any Microsoft kit, any HTTP server will do, the only requirements will be an IIS server to serve out licenses, and a windows box somewhere to package the content. Of course it's an SDK, so you do need to code a little, but it's not that difficult.
Now compare this to Real's offering. Last time I looked the costs it was around $500,000 to get their SDK. Once you had it you had to write plugins for the player, as well as write a packager. And of course you need to make your plugin cross platform.
Finally we have Apple's DRM. The cost of that is, well, you give up control. Apple won't share the iTunes DRM, you cannot produce 3rd party licenses, protect your own content, set your own license rules or sell it outside the iTunes store (and hence the US). (As much as I get marked as a troll or flame every time I point out that to content owners Apple is way more restrictive that Microsoft, it still remains true).
As an added bonus there's the penetration of Windows on the desktop, and the fact that Media Player is already there.
All that is why content providers and stores are choosing WM DRM.
Well there's limited by IP address (unreliable) or checking the address of the payment card.
A better question is why is music on-line limited to one area? The answer to that lies in the painful way rights are issued to record labels. For example, Capitol in the US own the rights to Beatles recordings, EMI own them in Europe. Setting aside that Capitol really is EMI, Capitol cannot grant the rights to sell "Let it Be" to a company based in Europe, only EMI Europe can.
It gets even more complicated when you start looking at the copyright on lyrics, which may belong to someone else altogether.
"They began by using "Lebanese loops" - home-made devices which make the customer think the machine has swallowed the card, only for the crooks to nab them after the victim has walked off. But they have moved on to card skimmers - fake devices which are taped onto the doors of cash machine foyers - and card slot readers."
It used to be you had to press a button to get into the lobby out of hours. Then the homless started sleeping in the lobbys, so the banks replaced the button with a card reader. Now they're having to go back to buttons again.
Now maybe people will send "I'm on the train" emails, instead of forcing the whole carriage to listen to one half of your mobile phone conversation.
No, he's a low level heckler ... "Shut up! It's GNU linux." "Shut up! It's GNU linux." (repeat ad nauseum)
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