When you purchase the licence (yes, you only ever purchase a licence) to music it comes with certain restrictions. One of the standard restrictions is over public playing. You are not granted the right to play the music in public places. I suspect that one of the main reasons that the iPhone doesn't let you use itms songs as ringtones is it is against the licence.
In many ways drm doesn't reduce your rights, it just enforces the limitations more carefully.
No fast-forwarding dvds has *nothing* to do with DRM. It is a completely separate part of the specification If people are familiar with the real restrictions of the new formats (which won't impact most people, who won't want to rip them or watch them on linux) and still choose to buy it, why spread false FUD about DRM? Personally I would prefer the new formats didn't have any DRM, but realistically the proposed DRM techniques don't go any further than DVD's CSS was meant to (with the exception of the potential that they will restrict the playback resolution on unsecured devices.) Most people haven't encountered the limitations of dvds (with the possible exception of region coding)
We now know what microsoft's credit limit is. I wonder how they calculated $75 million. Its income is about 16billion per year (iirc) so its limit is only.4% of its annual income. That seems a bit low to me.
Just think of the reward points it would get though
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I assume you meant to say "bang for the cores" surely dual core ships will be quite a bit cheaper than two single core chips.
When you purchase the licence (yes, you only ever purchase a licence) to music it comes with certain restrictions. One of the standard restrictions is over public playing. You are not granted the right to play the music in public places. I suspect that one of the main reasons that the iPhone doesn't let you use itms songs as ringtones is it is against the licence. In many ways drm doesn't reduce your rights, it just enforces the limitations more carefully.
No fast-forwarding dvds has *nothing* to do with DRM. It is a completely separate part of the specification
If people are familiar with the real restrictions of the new formats (which won't impact most people, who won't want to rip them or watch them on linux) and still choose to buy it, why spread false FUD about DRM?
Personally I would prefer the new formats didn't have any DRM, but realistically the proposed DRM techniques don't go any further than DVD's CSS was meant to (with the exception of the potential that they will restrict the playback resolution on unsecured devices.) Most people haven't encountered the limitations of dvds (with the possible exception of region coding)
P2p music downloaders have to re-encode 12.3% of their music downloads.
We now know what microsoft's credit limit is. I wonder how they calculated $75 million. Its income is about 16billion per year (iirc) so its limit is only .4% of its annual income. That seems a bit low to me.
Just think of the reward points it would get though