I personally don't think Congress will make Palladium(or whatever they call it now) law. Of course, we've seen stupid senators and whatnot make anti-open-tech decisions before. At that point I think Apple would stand up against it and make sure it stays out of the law. Apple got the RIAA to trust them with Fairplay, maybe they can do it again with a corporate no-DRM movement.
Don't expect much. While a few people are willing to take a chance on Microsoft the "Heavies" are all but freezing Microsoft out. WM9 is a decent codec but with MPEG4 and H.264 coming there will be more competition soon
I personally don't think Congress will make Palladium(or whatever they call it now) law.
1) Four letters: DMCA. It's already law, in a sense.
2) It doesn't matter whether or not the exact provisions of Palladium (or whatever they're calling it now) are law. The law simply has to recognize the right of its kind of DRM to exist (which the DMCA already does, more or less). The technology can become the law, and in doing so it can moot the law. (This is the core of Lawrence Lessig's argument.)
With vast improvements in audio and video compression and a sleek, new interface full of bells and whistles, Windows Media left its humble beginnings as a Web format and entered the professional fray.
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"The film industry has been cautious about Microsoft in the past," Jupiter's Card said. "They looked at the software industry and figured out that Microsoft ended up with most of the profits. But Microsoft is listening very hard to the industry and trying to give them support, so they don't scare them off."
1) Four letters: DMCA. It's already law, in a sense.
2) It doesn't matter whether or not the exact provisions of Palladium (or whatever they're calling it now) are law. The law simply has to recognize the right of its kind of DRM to exist (which the DMCA already does, more or less). The technology can become the law, and in doing so it can moot the law. (This is the core of Lawrence Lessig's argument.)
Yes, but do we have(extensive) DRM on our Macs? No. Fairplay is just that. Fair. Palladium is way overzealous for DRM on consumer machines.
It could/would force us to rent our software. This brings back the music rental from the MS music store thread a week or two ago.
The DMCA makes it illegal to circumvent copy-protection. That could probably be extended to(and very likely will be) include DRM.
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And that's one of the least of our problems. If their idea of DRM becomes the de facto standard, we're in deep trouble.
Originally posted by CubeDude
I personally don't think Congress will make Palladium(or whatever they call it now) law.
1) Four letters: DMCA. It's already law, in a sense.
2) It doesn't matter whether or not the exact provisions of Palladium (or whatever they're calling it now) are law. The law simply has to recognize the right of its kind of DRM to exist (which the DMCA already does, more or less). The technology can become the law, and in doing so it can moot the law. (This is the core of Lawrence Lessig's argument.)
With vast improvements in audio and video compression and a sleek, new interface full of bells and whistles, Windows Media left its humble beginnings as a Web format and entered the professional fray.
"The film industry has been cautious about Microsoft in the past," Jupiter's Card said. "They looked at the software industry and figured out that Microsoft ended up with most of the profits. But Microsoft is listening very hard to the industry and trying to give them support, so they don't scare them off."
Sure Microsoft will listen.
Originally posted by Amorph
1) Four letters: DMCA. It's already law, in a sense.
2) It doesn't matter whether or not the exact provisions of Palladium (or whatever they're calling it now) are law. The law simply has to recognize the right of its kind of DRM to exist (which the DMCA already does, more or less). The technology can become the law, and in doing so it can moot the law. (This is the core of Lawrence Lessig's argument.)
Yes, but do we have(extensive) DRM on our Macs? No. Fairplay is just that. Fair. Palladium is way overzealous for DRM on consumer machines.
It could/would force us to rent our software. This brings back the music rental from the MS music store thread a week or two ago.
The DMCA makes it illegal to circumvent copy-protection. That could probably be extended to(and very likely will be) include DRM.
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/20...hollings_bill/
http://forums.appleinsider.com/showt...ghlight=rental
http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=06901