Does buying music vids = lock into apple/ipod
I tried doing a search of a topic like this and found nothing. Sorry in advance if i just couldnt find it. I just bought a music video from iTMS and remembered from the media event that steve said you couldn't burn them to disk. This to me is a little to restrictive. Now i can only play them on my ipod or my computer. At least with music you can burn them to cd, play them in other cd players and the biggest part why the music DRM is so good is if you want to put your songs on another mp3 player you can just import them to itunes as an mp3 and the DRM is gone. Now i know in many years i can put my music wherever i want (if i decide to go with other software/hardware). However there is now way to do this with videos. Any thoughts.
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Originally posted by Telomar
All DRM is basically aimed at locking you in to somebody's platform. That's why there is no standard for it and each vendor makes up their own system.
I understand that DRM is aimed to protect content and therefore usually locks the end user into a particular system. However it seems odd that apple would in a way downgrade their DRM so you couldnt even watch it on a tv without an ipod or an macintosh computer. I guess the only way to get the deal inked was for this to be one of the DRM requirements, however this is the only thing stopping me from buying videos on the iTMS. At least with music i can get it on other devices, platforms etc.
PS: Do you think we will ever see a change in the video DRM. Also thank for the great replies.
Originally posted by larry.david
I understand that DRM is aimed to protect content...
Protecting content is the excuse for DRM. Vendor and platform lock-in, protecting business models from open and free competition, and extending the control of "content providers" well beyond the already corporate-biased/consumer-unfriendly reaches which our imbalanced intellectual property laws provide -- these are what DRM is really about.
Originally posted by larry.david
PS: Do you think we will ever see a change in the video DRM. Also thank for the great replies.
That's possible. Apple did change Fairplay once if you recall.
Originally posted by larry.david
However it seems odd that apple would in a way downgrade their DRM so you couldnt even watch it on a tv without an ipod or an macintosh computer.
PS: Do you think we will ever see a change in the video DRM. Also thank for the great replies.
You could use a Windows computer that has iTunes on it. I have such a computer in my home theater.
Allowing burned CDs of audio isn't much compared to the actual CD product. Still, with DVDs, I think they don't want non-encrypted DVDs getting out, but that's a joke because DVD encryption was a joke. As the resolution was so low, I think they could have at least allowed Video CD burning.