19 Feb
2004
19 Feb
'04
8:53 a.m.
Hello all,
The piece I wrote for Sound on Sound about DRM for audio is now
available online without subscription:
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/aug03/articles/drm.htm
The arguments will be familiar to list members, but the piece was
written for people who haven't been following DRM development
closely.
Cheers
Daniel
19 Feb
19 Feb
9:53 a.m.
Hallo,
Daniel James hat gesagt: // Daniel James wrote:
The piece I wrote for Sound on Sound about DRM for
audio is now
available online without subscription:
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/aug03/articles/drm.htm
The arguments will be familiar to list members, but the piece was
written for people who haven't been following DRM development
closely.
Great article.
Just a short comment: You write "[...] the use of these techniques is
not always indicated on album packaging." At least in Germany this now
isn't true anymore. The use of copy protection *has* to be visible to
customers here. I believe this was done to conform to EU laws, so it
might become so in GB, as well.
ciao
--
Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__
10:19 a.m.
You write "[...] the use of these techniques is
not always indicated on album packaging." At least in Germany this
now isn't true anymore.
I just bought the Strokes album from an on-line store, and I was upset
to find out on opening the packaging that it was 'corrupt'. However,
the CD played perfectly on my Linux box without DRM of any kind, and
in my wife's car CD player too.
So I'm inclined to think that a lot of these warnings are bluffs - the
label wants you to think the disc is non-standard, but the shops
don't want all the returns and the bills for broken hardware.
However, the consumer rights programme on BBC Radio 4 had an item
recently about CDs that won't play in cars, so the info about DRM is
slowly getting through to the general public.
Cheers
Daniel
10:45 a.m.
On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 02:17:16PM +0000, Daniel James wrote:
So I'm inclined to think that a lot of these
warnings are bluffs - the
label wants you to think the disc is non-standard, but the shops
don't want all the returns and the bills for broken hardware.
It's like how they sell audio cdrs and data cdrs.
Very funny :)
v
10:52 a.m.
Hallo,
Daniel James hat gesagt: // Daniel James wrote:
Another possibility might be - in Germany - that if there is no copy
protection warning on the box, then a customer could be inclined to
think, that, yes, copying this is not prohibited. Shortly after the
new law was done here, I suddenly found DRM stickers on every
Playstation 2 game in the shops. Those are protected for years and it
was never explicitly mentioned on the box until now.
ciao
--
Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__
You write
"[...] the use of these techniques is
not always indicated on album packaging." At least in Germany this
now isn't true anymore.
I just bought the Strokes album from an on-line store, and I was upset
to find out on opening the packaging that it was 'corrupt'. However,
the CD played perfectly on my Linux box without DRM of any kind, and
in my wife's car CD player too.
So I'm inclined to think that a lot of these warnings are bluffs - the
label wants you to think the disc is non-standard, but the shops
don't want all the returns and the bills for broken hardware.
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