http://live.pirillo.com/ – Clone69 wants to know wha exactly DRM is.
DRM stands for Digital Rights Management, and it’s a piece of code that is intended to help curb content piracy. The problem is that DRM is a colossal failure:
- It annoys users
- Gets in their way
- It’s not a good experience
- And it doesn’t stop people from pirating content, at all.
Take Ponzi, for example: she had a Napster, Urge, and iTunes accounts. Because each vendor uses their own form of DRM they can’t play music bought from each store. So, each time she goes to a new provider she needs to purchase the same songs over again. How many times is she going to buy access to the same song? She could save money by buying the CD, ripping the CD herself, and then not worry about being restricted with what she can do with the content.
The easiest way to get around DRM is to purchase the content. Buy the CD or DVD and rip it to your machine. That way you’ll get the content you purchased plus the added ability to play that content in whatever machine you want to.
What do you think about DRM?
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DRM was implemened to stop piracy, however, it is a big rip off as each time we play the song we must pay a fee. With this “technology” (making monry business) not only the companies make more than 120% of what we are supposed to pay, but the infrige the law as one time fee is enough to pay the proper music rights in order to play it everytime we want to. As far as I know, this will always create work arounds to let users find a way to rip the music off, if we are paying for music rights it should always be a one time fee, otherwise consider yourself finding an alternative place to download music or once you have already pay for the song get it from other source. We are now in the business of “We will decrease prices, buy letting you music rights fees”, which in fact is making them richer. Absolutely if you want something you like, buy it, if they force you to pay a fee each time you play a song, rip it, with one payment you have already paid what is was worth.
Well, the first PC has the BASIC command “COPY”… Hollywood (aka “managers”) do not understand that going on digital, they can’t avoid this old command. They try, and succeed, just to delay the access to this.
Also the target is wrong! They succeed on an “alone, unprepared, average, seldom client”. Why? Well, you know the regional code for DVD? I saw a “professional” with 5 DVD players, one above other… Hollywood use the “bit” to prohibit the copy on TV signals, I saw the scratch on circuit board that cut-off it to propagate… This means that for a “professional” copy-maker, the hardware sollution to make copies is cheap and best!
I understand that Vista itself will cut the HDTV signal (from a DVD or any other source) to a standard TV, and then will use a “enhancement software” to show you a HDTV result (to avoid to have access to the original source content), this is already unhealthy since What You See Is Not What You Bought…
What they can really do? I think that if the recorded source is of a so “stupendous quality” (please read of a “such huge size”), the copy itself could be a problem more expensive compared to buy another “original copy”. Aka, if a HDTV show of 1 hour will have 10-20GB, the disk price to have it will cost you a $5-10, so better buy the “orihinal copy”. But this will wait a little, since many of us accept to use the poor quality of a standard TV (2 hour or more for 1GB)…