Hi Shane,

I think DRM will annoy people, but I also believe they will
substantially accept it simply because most large companies will use it.
 It'll be the norm.

Yes I see what you are saying especially in the context of products "off the shelf"; they'll get what they're given. However, there is another side to it. I was reading an article in PC Pro about HD-DVD vs Blu-Ray and it seems they are concerned that if the copy protection is too tough it may actually put off home users because they're used to being able to record to DVD and VCR. Of course the DRM camp will say "it's fine" you can copy to other "authorised" equipment. This appears to be how it works with iTunes - you can have up to five "authorised" computers. From what I can tell Blu-Ray is much more restrictive than HD-DVD.

I noticed that in the Microsoft DirectShow SDK they actually back-tracked on their earlier "tough" DRM because too many people complained. Perhaps people accepted Apple's DRM more that Microsoft's because it was more flexible (and maybe more reliable?). There have certainly been cases of angry Microsoft customers who ended up locked out of their own music and "upgrade" software versions that also require activation (and then didn't). I don't have much sympathy for these users because it's their own fault for buying into those products in the first place. They should stick to free and open-source software.

AMD has no reason to reject DRM and 'Trusted Computing.'

Yes I guess you're right, what a sad state of affairs, but (to me) it's not so different to how it's always been; the big commercial vendors will restrict their products to the point of extreme user annoyance and then someone will say "let's make Linux" or "let's make FreeDOS".

In terms of the film industry, I think they'll damage their own sales regardless of DRM! They have ZERO imagination and simply try to re-hash movies with trashy sequels.

For music and TV, my take on it is this; I don't use iTunes or MP3 because they're compressed; I only listen to 44Khz 16bit PCM or analogue music and with TV I just intercept the signal from the PCI bus and encode using open-source xvid so it's unlikely it will affect my personal media for some time, but for work I do need to deal with media players for my users. Hell, it's bad enough with three different formats, WMV, QT, RAM let alone DRM as well!

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Gerry Hickman (London UK)


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