At least for the Mac I can say that you can have 3 Macs at the same time. You can deregister a Mac and register another one at any time. So who needs to play his/her music on 4 Macs at the same time?
I doubt, that there will ever be music without DRM legally available. File sharing makes it in my opinion too "dangerous" for the music industry. Maybe (and I hope that, too) we'll see something like free or "donation music" (in a greater amount than today), but the majority of successfull songs will probably simply stay paid.
This procedure you're talking about, where a bad law gets passed because a worse one was proposed is in my opinion simply called "compromise" and hence something very important in politics. The fact, that there could be a "worse" DRM comes from the music industry. The users (me too!) don't want any DRM. In this situation, there would be no legal digital music available.
But having FairPlay there's a compromise: The majority of users (obviously not the people here, but millions of songs have been sold up to now) and the majority of music labels/artists (e.g. not Metallica) are content (not glad) with it. And at least it works.
Sorry, but saying, that copyrighted material is illegal is not correct (at least not for Germany). Is there a law prohibiting copyright? The only thing we have in Germany is the users' right to make a backup copy. This is possible with FairPlay.
Just to make my point clear: I'm not at all a friend of DRM. I'm glad about DeCSS to watch movies using linux. I patched my DVD drive to free it from its region code restrictions. But regarding FairPlay: if you think, that it's not the best solution, it's in my opinion still a step to the right direction! Noone stops you implementing a fairer solution, if you can manage to bring the users and the music industry together. But please do not torpedo this first step.
Please come off your illusion, before being primitively insulting: - The music industry wants money for the music they're selling. They won't survive giving you music for free. - If someone publishes music, that can be spread easily and without protection, they won't tolerate it. - This has nothing to do with Apple. They don't want DRM, their primary goal is to sell iPods. The music industry wants DRM, and they won't let Apple sell music without DRM.
Believe me, Fairplay will be updated. Having all devices and (legal) media under control, this will be rather easy for apple (at least compared to DVDs). The music industry will put pressure on them otherwise.
Everybody here seems to be glad about this hack. I'm not...
Please think about it: 1) Apple's DRM Fairplay is rather fair - at least compared to other DRMs. Every "normal" user that simply wants to listen to the music, that he or she bought legally, can do it. You can even burn it on CD and listen to it in your car. The only thing one can criticize it that the only mobile digital music player you can use is the iPod. 2) The music industry still doesn't like digital music. Few days ago I read about the music industry demanding higher charges than 99cents, which in my opinion are quite fair as well.
It was probably not very easy for Apple to convice the music industry of Fairplay being safe enough (think of all their competitors' DRMs). So what will happen now?
a) Apple will be forced to shut down their Music Store b) Apple will have to update all their songs, the iPod-Software and iTunes. I guess, the new DRM will be more strict....
So what do we get from PlayFair and DeDRMS? A quite reasonable product will be gone.
And you can be sure, this development won't help the music store expanding to the rest of the world, either.
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At least for the Mac I can say that you can have 3 Macs at the same time. You can deregister a Mac and register another one at any time. So who needs to play his/her music on 4 Macs at the same time?
I doubt, that there will ever be music without DRM legally available. File sharing makes it in my opinion too "dangerous" for the music industry. Maybe (and I hope that, too) we'll see something like free or "donation music" (in a greater amount than today), but the majority of successfull songs will probably simply stay paid.
This procedure you're talking about, where a bad law gets passed because a worse one was proposed is in my opinion simply called "compromise" and hence something very important in politics. The fact, that there could be a "worse" DRM comes from the music industry. The users (me too!) don't want any DRM. In this situation, there would be no legal digital music available.
But having FairPlay there's a compromise: The majority of users (obviously not the people here, but millions of songs have been sold up to now) and the majority of music labels/artists (e.g. not Metallica) are content (not glad) with it. And at least it works.
Sorry, but saying, that copyrighted material is illegal is not correct (at least not for Germany). Is there a law prohibiting copyright? The only thing we have in Germany is the users' right to make a backup copy. This is possible with FairPlay.
Just to make my point clear: I'm not at all a friend of DRM. I'm glad about DeCSS to watch movies using linux. I patched my DVD drive to free it from its region code restrictions. But regarding FairPlay: if you think, that it's not the best solution, it's in my opinion still a step to the right direction! Noone stops you implementing a fairer solution, if you can manage to bring the users and the music industry together. But please do not torpedo this first step.
Hi anoymous coward!
Please come off your illusion, before being primitively insulting:
- The music industry wants money for the music they're selling. They won't survive giving you music for free.
- If someone publishes music, that can be spread easily and without protection, they won't tolerate it.
- This has nothing to do with Apple. They don't want DRM, their primary goal is to sell iPods. The music industry wants DRM, and they won't let Apple sell music without DRM.
Believe me, Fairplay will be updated. Having all devices and (legal) media under control, this will be rather easy for apple (at least compared to DVDs). The music industry will put pressure on them otherwise.
Everybody here seems to be glad about this hack. I'm not...
Please think about it:
1) Apple's DRM Fairplay is rather fair - at least compared to other DRMs. Every "normal" user that simply wants to listen to the music, that he or she bought legally, can do it. You can even burn it on CD and listen to it in your car. The only thing one can criticize it that the only mobile digital music player you can use is the iPod.
2) The music industry still doesn't like digital music. Few days ago I read about the music industry demanding higher charges than 99cents, which in my opinion are quite fair as well.
It was probably not very easy for Apple to convice the music industry of Fairplay being safe enough (think of all their competitors' DRMs). So what will happen now?
a) Apple will be forced to shut down their Music Store
b) Apple will have to update all their songs, the iPod-Software and iTunes. I guess, the new DRM will be more strict....
So what do we get from PlayFair and DeDRMS? A quite reasonable product will be gone.
And you can be sure, this development won't help the music store expanding to the rest of the world, either.