[News] DRM is Dying Along with Its Shops (Classic New Example) - Linux
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| Since Virgin Digital used DRM technology from Microsoft to manage how songs
| could be played and transferred to portable devices, the service was not
| compatible with Apple's ...
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[News] DRM is Dying Along with Its Shops (Classic New Example)
Virgin drops Windows Media-based music download service
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| Since Virgin Digital used DRM technology from Microsoft to manage how songs
| could be played and transferred to portable devices, the service was not
| compatible with Apple's iPod line, which uses a different DRM technology and
| file format.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20...nfoworld/92035
Virgin Digital can't reach escape velocity, to be grounded permanently
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post...rmanently.html
Dying Virgin urges punters: "rip to CD"
http://www.theinquirer.net/en/inquir...ters-rip-to-cd
DRM advocates getting nervous about consumer backlash
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| But the growing backlash against DRM is causing dissension in the pro-DRM
| ranks.
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post...-backlash.html
And Microsoft *loves* DRM, by its own admission. Just comes to show its
character...
Related:
Music DRM in critical condition: Universal tests DRM free music sales
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| Universal Music Group has announced that the company is going to test selling
| DRM-free music to consumers in order to assess the market.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6939807.stm
Paramount: DRM may not (at least right now) please consumers
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| "Interoperability (presents) an impediment to digital distribution," he said
| during remarks at the Progress and Freedom Foundation's Aspen Summit. "I'm
| pretty confident that in the end solutions will be found. It's just a
| question of how much heat and pressure we feel before we see the light."
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http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-976...=2547-1_3-0-20
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Re: [News] DRM is Dying Along with Its Shops (Classic New Example)
Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
> Virgin drops Windows Media-based music download service
That's not the only thing they dropped:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/news/20070917_virgin.shtml
Eventually /all/ multimedia will be delivered in a media-less format, so
physical retail stores may be redundant, unless they can somehow change.
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Re: [News] DRM is Dying Along with Its Shops (Classic New Example)
____/ [H]omer on Tuesday 25 September 2007 22:25 : \____
> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
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>> Virgin drops Windows Media-based music download service
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> That's not the only thing they dropped:
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> http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/news/20070917_virgin.shtml
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> Eventually /all/ multimedia will be delivered in a media-less format, so
> physical retail stores may be redundant, unless they can somehow change.
Well, storage still requires some form of media (e.g. flash/HDD), but I agree.
I've been paperless for years as well... there's a lot and many which has/have
to accept digitisation of everything that can be digitised. DRM is scary in
this context. It is a threat to culture. OOXML poses similar types of fear,
not to mention proprietary codecs.
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