Not withstanding DCMA legal language, I'm excited about this. Many a time I've listened to a streaming music radio station and wish I could have bought the song on the spot. If I manage to catch the name I now go to iTunes and buy it.
I'm wondering what DRM scheme you will use to keep people from buying and then turning around and sticking it up on a P2P platform?
CaveDweller, an embedded hardware would sure change that wouldn't it?
That is what AOL has decided to do. "Within six months" they will launch an "authentication device" that is not tied to these weaknesses you've addressed.
Passport is all about centralized control. It reminds me of the old PSTN that my Grandmother had when I was young. The phone would ring and the operator would say "call for the Johnson's." Since we were the Smith's we were supposed to hang up and not listen it. I think it was called a multi-party line.
However, consumers and privacy groups advocated decentralizing and putting control into the hands of the user. The network was distributed.
Another analogy was music. 80 years ago you could really only listen to music live or on the radio (which was live too). Artists really were poor! Users were controlled by the distributors (listen when we play it).
That changed due to guys like Edison developing recording devices. A recording device put the distribution of listening/watching into the hands of the consumer.
Guess what? The internet is doing the same thing. It has started out as centralized control just like these other two mediums. However, consumers are now tired of centralized control and their inability to control the distibution of content (or their personal info for that matter).
P2P with a hardware-based authentication device will empower the consumer and remove the control from companies like Microsoft.
Best Regards!
sasha328 the P2P movement is certainly an alternative.
Look at what AOL has done:
1) They own the portal as an ISP with millions of users;
2) They own the digital content (Warner Bros., Atlantic Records, etc.);
3) Now they've decided to control the delivery of that content before P2P does it for them.
More at:
http://wavxtek.tripod.com/AOL_and_DVI.pdf
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What if we GUIfied text on printed paper allowing for easy connection to digital content on a TV/DVD or PC/DVD/CD?
http://www.discovertek.com/SPNstream.mov
http://www.discovertek.com/WhitePaper.pdf
Doesn't SlashDot screen for this?
Not withstanding DCMA legal language, I'm excited about this. Many a time I've listened to a streaming music radio station and wish I could have bought the song on the spot. If I manage to catch the name I now go to iTunes and buy it.
I'm wondering what DRM scheme you will use to keep people from buying and then turning around and sticking it up on a P2P platform?
...paper?
http://www.virtual-ed.org/SPNstream.mov
What do you think of managing DRM and security through crypto-security co-processors like the offering from Wave Systems, Microsoft, Intel, etc.?
I found the "pulled" article:
6 25 02_levy
http://www.msnbc.com/m/nw/talk/archive.asp?lt=0
CaveDweller, an embedded hardware would sure change that wouldn't it? That is what AOL has decided to do. "Within six months" they will launch an "authentication device" that is not tied to these weaknesses you've addressed. Passport is all about centralized control. It reminds me of the old PSTN that my Grandmother had when I was young. The phone would ring and the operator would say "call for the Johnson's." Since we were the Smith's we were supposed to hang up and not listen it. I think it was called a multi-party line. However, consumers and privacy groups advocated decentralizing and putting control into the hands of the user. The network was distributed. Another analogy was music. 80 years ago you could really only listen to music live or on the radio (which was live too). Artists really were poor! Users were controlled by the distributors (listen when we play it). That changed due to guys like Edison developing recording devices. A recording device put the distribution of listening/watching into the hands of the consumer. Guess what? The internet is doing the same thing. It has started out as centralized control just like these other two mediums. However, consumers are now tired of centralized control and their inability to control the distibution of content (or their personal info for that matter). P2P with a hardware-based authentication device will empower the consumer and remove the control from companies like Microsoft. Best Regards!
Goto http://www.setco.org and in the product matrix click on Microsoft's wallet.
sasha328 the P2P movement is certainly an alternative. Look at what AOL has done: 1) They own the portal as an ISP with millions of users; 2) They own the digital content (Warner Bros., Atlantic Records, etc.); 3) Now they've decided to control the delivery of that content before P2P does it for them. More at: http://wavxtek.tripod.com/AOL_and_DVI.pdf