Comments on: Music and frustration: copy protection schemes http://www.sindark.com/2006/02/26/music-and-frustration-copy-protection-schemes/ dispatches from Canada's capital Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:05:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: . http://www.sindark.com/2006/02/26/music-and-frustration-copy-protection-schemes/#comment-52557 . Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:58:15 +0000 http://www.sindark.com/wp/?p=261#comment-52557 <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/416641126/walmart-now-says-the.html" rel="nofollow">WalMart now says they'll keep the DRM servers on forever</a> By Cory Doctorow on Copyfight After announcing that they'd be shutting off their DRM servers and nuking their customers' music collections, Wal*Mart has changed their mind. Now they've told their customers that they'll be keeping these servers online indefinitely -- which means that they'll be paying forever for their mistaken kowtowing to the entertainment industry's DRM mania. All those companies (cough Amazon cough Apple cough) that say they're only doing DRM for now, until they can convince the stupid entertainment execs to ditch it, heed this lesson: you will spend the rest of your corporate life paying for this mistake, maintaining infrastructure whose sole purpose is to lock your customers into a technology restriction that no one really believes in. Welcome to the infinite cost of doing business with Hollywood. WalMart now says they’ll keep the DRM servers on forever

By Cory Doctorow on Copyfight

After announcing that they’d be shutting off their DRM servers and nuking their customers’ music collections, Wal*Mart has changed their mind. Now they’ve told their customers that they’ll be keeping these servers online indefinitely — which means that they’ll be paying forever for their mistaken kowtowing to the entertainment industry’s DRM mania.

All those companies (cough Amazon cough Apple cough) that say they’re only doing DRM for now, until they can convince the stupid entertainment execs to ditch it, heed this lesson: you will spend the rest of your corporate life paying for this mistake, maintaining infrastructure whose sole purpose is to lock your customers into a technology restriction that no one really believes in. Welcome to the infinite cost of doing business with Hollywood.

]]> By: Milan http://www.sindark.com/2006/02/26/music-and-frustration-copy-protection-schemes/#comment-7184 Milan Tue, 09 Jan 2007 18:40:13 +0000 http://www.sindark.com/wp/?p=261#comment-7184 "EMI Netherlands has announced that it is considering <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2007/01/08/emi_abandons_cd_drm.html" rel="nofollow">no longer using DRM on CDs</a>, because it isn't worth the cost. According to Reuters the company is still <a href="http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyID=2007-01-08T190712Z_01_L08881112_RTRUKOC_0_US-EMI-COPYRIGHT.xml&WTmodLoc=InternetNewsHome_C2_internetNews-2" rel="nofollow">reviewing the decision</a>. From the article: 'Critics have argued that the system has not worked as consumers could be driven to illegal sites to download music to the popular iPod instead. A spokeswoman for EMI said it had not manufactured any new disks with DRM, which restricts consumers from making copies of songs and films they have purchased legally, for the last few months.'" “EMI Netherlands has announced that it is considering no longer using DRM on CDs, because it isn’t worth the cost. According to Reuters the company is still reviewing the decision. From the article: ‘Critics have argued that the system has not worked as consumers could be driven to illegal sites to download music to the popular iPod instead. A spokeswoman for EMI said it had not manufactured any new disks with DRM, which restricts consumers from making copies of songs and films they have purchased legally, for the last few months.’”

]]> By: Milan http://www.sindark.com/2006/02/26/music-and-frustration-copy-protection-schemes/#comment-2418 Milan Tue, 06 Jun 2006 13:12:51 +0000 http://www.sindark.com/wp/?p=261#comment-2418 "One word: Vinyl." Also, given that I couldn't even ship CDs out to England with me, the chances of doing so with boxes of records are exactly nil. “One word: Vinyl.”

Also, given that I couldn’t even ship CDs out to England with me, the chances of doing so with boxes of records are exactly nil.

]]> By: B http://www.sindark.com/2006/02/26/music-and-frustration-copy-protection-schemes/#comment-1435 B Fri, 03 Mar 2006 03:28:00 +0000 http://www.sindark.com/wp/?p=261#comment-1435 Today's photo: Documentary value: 4/7 Artistic value: 4/7 Humour value: 5/7 Today’s photo:

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]]> By: Anonymous http://www.sindark.com/2006/02/26/music-and-frustration-copy-protection-schemes/#comment-1434 Anonymous Tue, 28 Feb 2006 02:25:00 +0000 http://www.sindark.com/wp/?p=261#comment-1434 In 2002 and 2003, the U.S. motion picture industry publicly discussed the possibility of legislation to "close the analog hole" -- most likely through regulation of digital recording devices, limiting their ability to record analog video signals that appear to be commercial audiovisual works. See: <a HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_hole" rel="nofollow">Analog hole</A> on Wikipedia. In 2002 and 2003, the U.S. motion picture industry publicly discussed the possibility of legislation to “close the analog hole” — most likely through regulation of digital recording devices, limiting their ability to record analog video signals that appear to be commercial audiovisual works.

See: Analog hole on Wikipedia.

]]> By: Milan http://www.sindark.com/2006/02/26/music-and-frustration-copy-protection-schemes/#comment-1433 Milan Sun, 26 Feb 2006 21:00:00 +0000 http://www.sindark.com/wp/?p=261#comment-1433 Tristan, There is legislation coming up in the United States to ban analog audio out jacks, precisely because of the colossal danger that someone might convert their vinyl albums (or CDs, or whatever) into evil, evil mp3s. Tristan,

There is legislation coming up in the United States to ban analog audio out jacks, precisely because of the colossal danger that someone might convert their vinyl albums (or CDs, or whatever) into evil, evil mp3s.

]]> By: tristan Laing http://www.sindark.com/2006/02/26/music-and-frustration-copy-protection-schemes/#comment-1432 tristan Laing Sun, 26 Feb 2006 20:56:00 +0000 http://www.sindark.com/wp/?p=261#comment-1432 One word: Vinyl. One word: Vinyl.

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