No, it's not up to the player to enforce the DRM. When you purchase a song from iTunes you are given the DRM'ed file, an md5 hash of the file, and two keys. Not sure what the other key is for, but one is the encryption key. You put that with the song and you get a DRM free song. Thats exactly what this does.
PS - Reverse engineering the iTMS is fun!
You're simply trolling at the end. For starters, it isn't 'pirating' it's copyright infringement. Then, to say only 'thieves' (it isn't really theft) will break the DRM is simply ignorant. I will break the DRM. Doing so will allow me to play the song without quicktime and on a Linux PC.
They make money on it. I believe they make about $0.30 per song. When Jobs said they were breaking even he meant that they had finally made enough to pay for their setup costs. They don't have to pay those again, so now it's all profit.
Of course, you could also say that Microsoft wanted to keep Apple running because those guys seem to be the main innovators in the PC market. Sure, keep some competition around to help them save face could be a possibility, but just look at how Microsoft seems to get 'inspired' by Apple technology.
Yes, Apple, with it's 3 or so percent of the computer market, obviously has a monopoly. They are allowed to do what they do because they aren't a monopoly. The rules are different for them.
Um, IIRC the Debian team decided 2.2 was stabler than 2.4 so they never switched to it. However, they are supposed to have 2.6 in stable by this summer.
Sure, Linux isn't any threat right now but what happens when in 2 years Gnome and KDE are better than Windows and there are lots of big games available? Seems to me that they are getting scared and trying to block it now.
...that people are used to WMP. If the next version of Windows they buy doesn't have any media player or has a different one, they will just get confused. It's too late to do this now, it needed to be done 9 years ago.
It should be interesting to see how the N1 Grid Containers work. It would be great to setup a shared server with this so scripts can't eat all the CPU and crash the entire server.
I thought these things were supposed to let you play a DVD a couple times then die. I guess that was just the hype because they figured you would watch it a few times before the time period elapsed.
Also, what happens when you buy one and your kid opens it on the way home?
This is the major problem with open-source software. All the project decide to make their own license so they can set special terms. This will only cause problems. If they would all agree on one license (GPL or not) then it would be much easier to get excited about using open-source software because I wouldn't have to read all the licenses to make sure they are compatible with each other. I also wouldn't have to worry about using a particular piece of software in an illegal manner because I would learn from Project A that I can't do certain things with it and then I would know that the same will be true for Porject B.
A "kid out of high-school" could just as easily have as much or more knowledge about a specific field of technology as the 40 year olds getting paid to know the stuff. All they would really have to do is have the drive to learn.
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No, it's not up to the player to enforce the DRM. When you purchase a song from iTunes you are given the DRM'ed file, an md5 hash of the file, and two keys. Not sure what the other key is for, but one is the encryption key. You put that with the song and you get a DRM free song. Thats exactly what this does. PS - Reverse engineering the iTMS is fun!
You're simply trolling at the end. For starters, it isn't 'pirating' it's copyright infringement. Then, to say only 'thieves' (it isn't really theft) will break the DRM is simply ignorant. I will break the DRM. Doing so will allow me to play the song without quicktime and on a Linux PC.
They make money on it. I believe they make about $0.30 per song. When Jobs said they were breaking even he meant that they had finally made enough to pay for their setup costs. They don't have to pay those again, so now it's all profit.
Of course, you could also say that Microsoft wanted to keep Apple running because those guys seem to be the main innovators in the PC market. Sure, keep some competition around to help them save face could be a possibility, but just look at how Microsoft seems to get 'inspired' by Apple technology.
Yes, Apple, with it's 3 or so percent of the computer market, obviously has a monopoly. They are allowed to do what they do because they aren't a monopoly. The rules are different for them.
Holy crap, you have to tell me how you did that!
Elitism?
Um, IIRC the Debian team decided 2.2 was stabler than 2.4 so they never switched to it. However, they are supposed to have 2.6 in stable by this summer.
The GPL isn't a contract, so your not making much sense here.
Sure, Windows will be 2 years better, if Longhorn is out by then.
Sure, Linux isn't any threat right now but what happens when in 2 years Gnome and KDE are better than Windows and there are lots of big games available? Seems to me that they are getting scared and trying to block it now.
Its worse. Around here the cost of plain old 1024/256 ADSL ($40) is actually cheaper than 56k + phone line.
Sorry Google, your free ride is over. And in other news, the Miami Dolphins actually won a superbowl!
Two days later:
"Those Linux hackers DOS attacked our site again. This just shows they know we are right and want to stop us from telling everyone."
...that people are used to WMP. If the next version of Windows they buy doesn't have any media player or has a different one, they will just get confused. It's too late to do this now, it needed to be done 9 years ago.
It should be interesting to see how the N1 Grid Containers work. It would be great to setup a shared server with this so scripts can't eat all the CPU and crash the entire server.
I thought these things were supposed to let you play a DVD a couple times then die. I guess that was just the hype because they figured you would watch it a few times before the time period elapsed. Also, what happens when you buy one and your kid opens it on the way home?
This is the major problem with open-source software. All the project decide to make their own license so they can set special terms. This will only cause problems. If they would all agree on one license (GPL or not) then it would be much easier to get excited about using open-source software because I wouldn't have to read all the licenses to make sure they are compatible with each other. I also wouldn't have to worry about using a particular piece of software in an illegal manner because I would learn from Project A that I can't do certain things with it and then I would know that the same will be true for Porject B.
A "kid out of high-school" could just as easily have as much or more knowledge about a specific field of technology as the 40 year olds getting paid to know the stuff. All they would really have to do is have the drive to learn.