> However, notice the discrepency: > > You would like the US to stay out of influencing how you choose to consume > music in your country. Similarly I would appreciate it if you didn't take > on a condescending attitude and would "stay out" of how I choose to consume > my music.
I did merely state my views, sorry if it felt like I was forcing them on you - that was not my intention. Also, even if I wanted to, I could not force them on you, whereas current US foreign trade policy seems very intent on forcing US views on "intellectual property" on EU countries, Canada and China, among others. > Your take on it is that DRM is necessarily at odds with the rights of the > consumer. Here in Austria there's a levy on blank media, scanners, printers, photo copy machines, CD burners ... expressly for compensating content producers for private non-profit copies of media. At the same time I'm prohibited from circumventing DRM measures - I'd say the whole mess is quite at odds with consumers' rights. > I *don't* find the current generation of DRM to be acceptable, Agreed. I might even change my point of view in the future. > it's a bit insulting to have this very valid feature enhancement burdened by > the weight of > naysayers such as yourself calling my decision to use these services "sad". Again, it wasn't meant to be insulting. > When on a product's mailing list asking for features I don't feel as though I > ought to have > to defend the way I choose to consume music. Slimserver itself is GPLed software, that just doesn't mix too well with DRM-enabling plugins, which would necessarily have to be closed source. But you're right of course in saying that this is off topic. > > Other than that [the Yahoo music service] seems a great deal. I think we > > pay more for > > the privilege of recieving radio here. > > Firstly, though this may have been just a loose use of the term, I'm not > sure why you say "we" in the last statement. Secondly, you're not the first > person I've > heard who has mentioned that they think it's like paying for radio. That's is a misunderstanding. In Austria "we" have to pay a certain small amount quarterly if we own a device that could conceivably receive the government funded radio (or TV) stations. So "we" are in fact paying for radio, nothing wrong with it. :) I just wanted to make the (positive) point that I thought the Yahoo service cheap. > Oh, and I just wanted to ask about your broadband prices--seems awfully > steep! Is it typical of your region? I'd say yes. Actually I'm very happy with my ISP, I've tried them all (literally) and some charge double the price for worse service. They support running servers on the connection, reconfigured their router to accommodate my firewall and don't give me blank looks when I mention reverse DNS lookups. C. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
