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Blogzilla: DRM-a-go-go
by Decius at 12:18 pm EST, Jan 31, 2006 |
Their "open" DRM platform requires licencees to sign an agreement with Microsoft, and pay a licence fee that serves to keep the number of licencees small. A fellow attendee's verbatim note was: "We don't want this technology to be available to every hobbyist...."
Microsoft just declared war. |
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RE: Blogzilla: DRM-a-go-go
by noteworthy at 1:29 pm EST, Jan 31, 2006 |
Decius wrote:
Microsoft just declared war.
To comment from recent first-hand experience on the quality of Microsoft's DRM implementation, I would like to quote Bart Simpson: "I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows."
Their architecture is a patchwork, and their code is flaky, and if you are trying to resolve any kind of problem with it, only the Standard Microsoft Solution applies. |
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DRM-a-go-go
by noteworthy at 1:32 pm EST, Jan 31, 2006 |
An amazing statistic I hadn't heard before was that a survey by Big Champagne found that DRM-protected files exclusively released through iTunes typically appear in unprotected form on P2P networks 180 seconds later.
Update: This is actually very old news; here is a reference from 2004 which cites Kazaa and 120 seconds. here is a Cory Doctorow talk from 2005 which repeats the 3 minute figure without specifying a network. |
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