SlashQuotes
It’s a slow news day so far, so I’ll quote posters on slashdot relating to Digital Rights Management and the iPod:
Fortunately the iPod is at the popularity level where people say “wtf, this CD is broken because it won’t work with my iPod!” rather than “damn, this crappy Apple product won’t play my music right!”
No DRM for me, thank you very much. I will buy real CDs. If real CDs are not available, I will steal the music or buy it off of iTMS.
All it takes is one cracked copy to be leaked online for it to be proliferated for downloading. Copy protecting a CD just makes it more difficult for the masses to legitimately get it onto their computers and MP3 players, and it creates a greater demand to download songs illegaly. Not to mention a lot of music that people download are rare music tracks they can’t find at the local music store anyway.
I have a simple solution … make the disks adhere to the Red Book standard, so that can be treated as compact discs. Oops, that makes SunnComm International and Macrovision irrelavent, not that I care. Saves Apple loads of effort, and money, and the listeners a load of grief.
*All comments are the respective property of their owners. I did not write these things, I copied them from a public forum and make no claim to their accuracy. Now you can’t sue me. (sad state of affairs when I have to cover myself with a legal disclaimer to pass on what I ‘overheard’, isn’t it?)
