Yeah, well. Bing is a professor of law and a very good one at that, he also used to be a pretty decent Sci.Fi. writer. He also has a hugely inflated ego: He _always_ acts absolutely certain that he is right, until he suddenly (e.g. by the supreme cort) is proven wrong, in which case he immediately finds something else to be absolutely certain about.
I would certainly listen to what the guy has to say, but _he_ is not going to be the one who decides what happens in this case.
... But eventually economics will catch up with them and they will have to find a clue.
My guessis that a clue can be found if one starts looking for something resembling a cache-server in a low cost-per-unit, high-choice, high-bandwidth envirnoment.
The first problem with this "clue" is that it represents a new distribution channel which will meet fierce resistance by rich conservatives with huge vested interests in curren channels.
The second problem is that these channels will continue to proliferate anyway, and if the music industry is not inside this process, they will not get much cash from it either, which at some point will be unacceptable for investors, so the conservatives will be forced out of office. It will be bloody, but it will happen.
This latest shenanegan concerning cryptographically signed formats is simply a non-starter. It is just another attempt to throw good money after an outdated distribution channel. Their loss, not ours.
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The stupid fucks don't understand that being spread to hackers on every continent, possibly including antarctica, the stuff is unstoppable. *boggle*
Yeah, well. Bing is a professor of law and a very good one at that, he also used to be a pretty decent Sci.Fi. writer. He also has a hugely inflated ego: He _always_ acts absolutely certain that he is right, until he suddenly (e.g. by the supreme cort) is proven wrong, in which case he immediately finds something else to be absolutely certain about.
I would certainly listen to what the guy has to say, but _he_ is not going to be the one who decides what happens in this case.
... But eventually economics will catch up with
them and they will have to find a clue.
My guessis that a clue can be found if one starts looking
for something resembling a cache-server in a low
cost-per-unit, high-choice, high-bandwidth envirnoment.
The first problem with this "clue"
is that it represents a new distribution channel which will meet fierce resistance by rich
conservatives with huge vested interests in curren
channels.
The second problem is that these channels will continue to proliferate anyway, and
if the music industry is not inside this process,
they will not get much cash from it either, which
at some point will be unacceptable for investors,
so the conservatives will be forced out of office.
It will be bloody, but it will happen.
This latest shenanegan concerning cryptographically signed
formats is simply a non-starter. It is
just another attempt to throw good money after
an outdated distribution channel. Their loss, not ours.