On 02/08/07, Dave Crossland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> secondly who buys a PVR that DRMs your recording?! > > My friends tell me that their Sky+ boxes are highly restrictive. Again, who (that is assuming sanity) buys the ridiculously overpriced monstrosity that is Sky+ ? > On that note, what type > > of Pirate (Arrgh, me hearties) downloads DRMed Music? > > People are often falling foul of FairPlay DRM because they want to > have more/different devices than Apple deem necessary. That's a > regrettable side effect though; the people that the restrictions > attack are the novice users doing friend-to-friend copying, and one of > the friends in that case is 'downloading.' I don't even own an iPod (over-priced junk for people who care about style over substance; a bit like the iPhone), and I know how to remove FairPlay DRM. I expect that everyone else on this list does aswell. Personally I think that' s a deliberate move by apple in order to please rights holders, whilst annoying consumers as little as possible. And seeing as iTunes has started selling DRM free music with EMI, I think that there is no point targeting apple over DRM; as much as I dislike their products. > If your anti-DRM targets are bittorrent and PVRs you're aiming in the > > wrong direction. > > Savvy users will have no problem getting unrestricted files; no one is > debating that (any more) - but its important to defend novice users, > who are the victims here. And Savvy programmers will create one click programs that will strip MS DRM from the BBCs On Demand content for everyone else within a few months, maximum. Vijay.
